The Internet, AI, And the Madness of Crowds

Remember Pets.com? Or Ask Jeeves? The dot com bubble of 25 years ago might have been a seismic event in markets. But was it just a collective moment of madness, or a deeper transformational moment? Or both? As AI stocks shoot towards the stratosphere, we talk to internet historian Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, about what we can learn from the last great tech bubble.


Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.

With Brian McCullough.

Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.

In association with Briefcase.News


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