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The Rot-Com Bubble

2024/6/5
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Better Offline
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This chapter explores the theory that the tech industry's hyper-growth era is over, leading to the creation of many useless products like the metaverse, cryptocurrency, and generative AI. The speaker questions the lack of meaningful improvement and innovation in recent years.
  • Decline in growth of major web platforms since 2021
  • Rise of useless products like the metaverse, cryptocurrency, and generative AI
  • Focus on growth over problem-solving

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Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since 2021. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how tech's decline is driving the tech industry to try and sell you useless products like the metaverse, cryptocurrency and generative AI.

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