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Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago

  • Written by Cameron Shackell, Sessional Academic, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology
Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years agoA crowd gathers outside the New York Stock Exchange following the 'Great Crash' of October 1929.New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress

The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution.

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