Poll: Do you think we're in a tech bubble?

I think the problem is this notion of "tech bubble", when in fact (from my understanding, which is no doubt imperfect!) the behavior is just kind of the inevitable trend of people looking to invest. It was houses in 2008, energy in 2000, tech in the mid-late 90s, tulips two hundred years ago...I don't think we should take too much credit for this--it's just finance folks/investors being clever and Ponzi'ing each other.

What is troubling, though, is the amount of personal data and privacy violations and voluntary surveillance we've trained the populace into accepting as collateral damage when trying to raise our valuations up and fix broken revenue models. That's, I fear, going to be what remains long after our fortunes have dwindled.

It all comes down to low interest rates. As long as rates stay low, the bubbles will build.

Fred Wilson wrote a good piece on this last year: http://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/

Please don't delete and repost the same thing repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

When you see billboard advertisements for apps which themselves rely 100% on advertising for revenue, that's when you know it's a bubble.

It's as though ad-supported companies are advertising each other to keep the money flowing because they can't get any outside money.