Unthingable

Now that all the tech tyrants are pursuing the AI stock bubble, previous stock bubbles are popping fast. Before AI, virtual reality was the earth-shaking new technology, the Transformative Universal Fix for all the world’s problems. Facebook and Google already dropped VR last year. Apple is dropping it this year.

Meanwhile, AI has already been popped by China’s DeepSeek. The pop isn’t fully effective yet, but the FOMO moonshine is gone.

What’s next? Normally the stock criminals start preparing and inflating the next bubble before the current one pops. I don’t see a Next Big Thing floating around yet. Maybe it’s Quantum Computing, a good candidate since the whole Quantum concept is fraud. Maybe they’ll go back to perpetual motion? Or just transfer all the idiot energy to Bitcoin, which is still holding fairly steady.

Of course they COULD stop making bubbles and return to making physical things like actual computers and appliances, which they managed to do for many decades before 1980, but I’m sure Things are no longer conceivable. The “minds” of the tech fools are hopelessly lost in the world of multi-layered idiocy, while China continues to take care of the physical world for them.

For the first time China is offering serious competition in the world of virtual shadows, which COULD cause a change of focus. When Toyota popped Detroit’s complacency in the 70s, Detroit responded positively by starting to make good cars. The turnaround took several years, so I wouldn’t expect to see signs of a similar turnaround yet.