Re:Historian finds tech bubble that didn't pop (180 years ago)
by synnik on Monday March 22, 2010 @10:52AM
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I've got to believe that any truly revolutionary technology could be spun into a story of a bubble that "Didn't pop."
The printing press comes to mind as the most obvious example. Literacy ballooned after it, which led too the entire print medium, which in turn was necessary before anyone would have thought of electronic text, and the internet.
I think the key is that when a new underlying technology comes around, it doesn't pop. The bubbles created from people creative usage of that technology are what pops.
The printing press comes to mind as the most obvious example. Literacy ballooned after it, which led too the entire print medium, which in turn was necessary before anyone would have thought of electronic text, and the internet.
I think the key is that when a new underlying technology comes around, it doesn't pop. The bubbles created from people creative usage of that technology are what pops.