18 Replies to ““absolutely no bubble in technology””

  1. It really isn’t hard to realize that the tech industry might be heading for another burst sometime soon. I hope it doesn’t happen, but whatever. Awesome video.

  3. Heh.  Yeah, baby, pre-2000.  Those were the days, the Elder Days, when tech gods strode the landscape and mere mortals quaked at the sound of their awesome IPOs…
    Those days were surprisingly good to me.

  4. Very very good. I think it would have been more powerful and by extension more effective if they more closely matched the instrumentation and vocalist of the original piece.
    But the lyrics were clever. It is topical, humorous, and the video was well produced.
    Now that I am done adjudicating, let me get back to my loft in a studio apartment where I am programming my next Web 2.0 social networking site so I can meet the IPO deadline set by the CFO and VC’s. This one is sure to be a hit because I was able to incorporate at least two buzzwords and offer t-shirts for sale.
    Kate, I’ll give you a deal on stock if you buy me a slice of pizza and a beer. Get me a Starbucks coffee and I’ll make you partner.

  5. I bought my first computer in 1992 and enjoyed living through it’s development over the next 16 or so years. Saw a lot of hype come and go. I learned so much about it early on that I taught computer literacy including MS Office and other basic programs for a time. I helped prepare people for their future digital enslavement so to speak.
    I watched it eventually grow to the laptop, the hand held, the cell phone, the IPod and the ghastly gamers! I noted over time, people becoming more introverted and less willing or able to carry on a conversation that wasn’t exclusive to what they were hooked into or what they were still working on long after working hours were supposed to be over. I think I now know how our space alien friends came to stop talking with their mouths.
    I think the advent of blogs will help in changing things a bit. At least now there is some exchange of ideas and input allowed buy the plebs. Two way stuff never before imagined.
    That small move forward may help to keep us freer, smarter, better informed and more prepared for what is shaping up to be a brave new world after all.
    Thanks for helping to blaze that trail Kate.
    And stop buying so many useless gadgets. Use some of that dough to take a friend out to dinner and have a live chat.

  6. I remember Lou Dobbs on CNN interviewing all the “experts” — right up until March 2000.
    Bubble today ? Who knows.
    The definition of a ‘bubble’ depends on when you got on board.
    Google at $700 a bubble ? Doesn’t matter — if ya got in at $85 !? But that is what the Nortellers thought — from a buck or two, to 115 to 50 cents in the blink of an eye.
    The only thing for sure;
    Bulls make money
    Bears make money
    Pigs get slaughtered.
    One thing you CAN take to the bank;
    People, especially investors, have a VERY short memory. That is why snake oil sells. Also AIT.

  7. Jeeze John, my first computer was an IBM PC. Woo, with the 64k RAM -upgrade-! Hot, hot stuff compared to the mainframe of my university days. (Disclaimer: I was in the Computer Club, my major was Anthropology). I enter the biz when the Compaq 386 was released. You had to do RAM upgrades with individual RAM chips. Don’t bend the pins!
    What have I learned over the years?
    1)Don’t buy cutting edge hardware, it will be average next year and ancient the year after.
    2)Don’t put anything on a hard drive you don’t want the whole world to know.
    3)Nobody can predict the Next Big Thing.
    This life we have these days is what Vernor Vinge’s “tech singularity” looks like from the inside. New tools that don’t change your job, they change your whole life around. New tools coming on an average of once every five years, lately. And accelerating. What used to take centuries is now moving at the same pace as women’s hemlines.
    Which brings me to the last thing:
    4)Humans don’t change.
    Just because your whole life is changed around doesn’t mean -you- are any different.
    We are the same as our great grandparents in Victorian times. If they had our stuff they’d have been like us. Which means, tradition, culture, morals all remain important and valid in our singularity, because we haven’t changed.
    One hundred years from now, fart jokes will still be funny.

  11. Ed & Phantom, I remember punch cards and trying to make dirty pictures with punctuation marks. If it wasn’t for the beer fridge in the Engineer’s Lounge at LU I might be as rich as Gates, Dell or err, ferget it. Life’s a bitch then you die.

  12. Geez. Lightweights! Anyone here soldering together their first computer from parts ordered out of a Heathkit catalog?

  13. Great find Kate I laughed and cried…too close to home..got stung twice in high tech start ups …as the video alludes to, most high tech start ups are fuelled with screwed-over engineers and code writers who get paied in worthless options and end up broker than the skanks running the 2-3 year NASDAQ con.
    For the record there have been about 3 bubbles burst since the last big NASDAQ Hi-Tech melt down.

  14. Sorry, Altruistic, My Heathkits were a shortwave radio and an O’scope. I did also build some memory using home made JK flip-flops made out of 2N404 transistors.;-)
    The amount of components stuffed into chips these days is truly incredible when compared to technology 50 years ago.

  15. “””””””Geez. Lightweights! Anyone here soldering together their first computer from parts ordered out of a Heathkit catalog?””””””
    those were the days my friend
    that I thought would never end

  16. Allied Radio *Knight Kits*.. then Heath Kits for Sortwave radio, The VTVM worked.. surprised.
    Then the Timex Sinclair computer, and later, when TI realized Corporate computers was where the Gravy was and dumped their Excellent consumer TI-99/4A machines at fire sale prices including the VG Extended Basic language. [ In Vancouver anyway where I bought one and *filled it out*].
    Those were fun times when machine language programs would run at the speed of light on an old 400 Mz chip, making our modern overburdened machines look like molasses.
    Hope Oprah doesn*t find about Obama*s beach frolic with the nekked brunette at the end of the video. = TG

  17. Ain’t that the truth, TG. I wrote a printed circuit board CAD program in machine language on my old Vic-20 that runs slightly faster than a similar program on today’s computers due to the high overhead and code gluttony of Winblows. Yeah, so I was limited to 6.4″x3.6″ PCBs, but damn that thing was slick.

  18. Is that guy smoking a cigar?? I hope that it is a chocolate cigar- think of the children – they might have access to this video!

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