Venkatesh Rao@vgr1/ Had some thoughts on this tweetstorm prompt from Friday from @atduskgreg tulip manias vs. pet rocks...Quote TweetGreg Borenstein@atduskgreg·Jul 29, 2017Replying to @vgrHow do you know when hyped up new tech is really a tulip bubble or a pet rock?7:33 PM · Jul 30, 20176 Retweets2 Quote Tweets22 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 30, 2017Replying to @vgr2/ (Disclaimer, tulip manias as popularly understood -- as representative irrational bubbles, whatever the latest revisionist history says)11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 30, 2017Replying to @vgr3/ Pet rocks and tulip manias are two extremes on a spectrum of there being no there there economically13
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 30, 2017Hence my test of there being a there there when you actually dig in and try to learn. Fake rocket science runs out of depth quickly.12
Gilad Ben-Yossef@giladby·Jul 30, 2017Replying to @MattRosoff @vgr and 2 othersYes, but fraud is neither pet rock nor Tulip. It's interesting but different topic: assume it is not fraud, is it viable?