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by diminish 5032 days ago
When technologies move from specialist areas to broad consumer usage, a more diverse (and less specialist) thinking also comes along, so people like zuckerberg, instead of data mining specialists with phd are ruling the techno start-up scenes, or stated otherwise, people who learn php and mysql, and not necessarily people with phd in cs rule this world. Moreover, to traverse all the possible space of innovation possible, more human effort, more dreamers are rushing into the field. finally, most are failing; this is normal in any problem solving when people simply traverse the possibility space with overlapping innovations.

A bubble is better identified in retrospect and a bubble predicator may be, the abundance of prophets such as this blog. Finally a bubble is good, and it simply justifies the fertile ground a certain technology provides. In this case web and mobile technologies have left no area of life untouched, and the bubbles are the golden medals they all carry going forward; showing their success and of course limitations.