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I can see it now...

Investors will mistake the loud pop caused by the bursting crypto bubble for gunshots. They'll jump for cover, becoming scared of tech, but as they do they'll then mistake another loud sound, this time a kaboom, of the AI hype cycle exploding. With it will go chatbots, self-driving cars and voice-powered assistants.

Then there's a rupture and a glow then a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon. People are unsure of what happened. Was that Facebook? Amazon?

Either way, this will tear a hole through the spacetime fabric of tech itself thus causing a black hole of fear; Google and Apple will hold on for dear life as everything around them gets sucked in.

At first a few Bird scooters fly past into the black hole of fear, Uber/Lyft sail by and explode in mid-air as they're sucked in, Zenefits instantly is ripped apart and evaporates creating a sort of Aurora Borealis surrounding the massive hole.

Somehow the blackhole of fear eventually closes and everything in midair tumbles back to sanity. Google/Apple regain their footing and observe the destruction around them.

The only thing left will be a few broken Lime scooters, a robotic arm that makes burgers and shitload of defense contracts.



>bursting crypto bubble

I've been looking for lateral career moves in my industry for a while now, and I'll be damned if every "exciting new company" in information security isn't a blockchain company. And not a single one of them can tell you what they're doing with the blockchain to help with security, they can only tell you how much money they're making.




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