Roth-Eisenberg: Recent NFT and AI hype resembles the dot-com boom
Tina Roth-Eisenberg · Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings · Jun 1, 2023 · at 3:29
Designer and CreativeMornings founder Tina Roth-Eisenberg reflects on starting her career in New York during the dot-com boom and compares that era to current technology cycles.
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“It was a magical time when the web was sort of, you know, exploding and everybody thought it's going to change the world forever, which it did to a certain extent, but I feel like we have similar hypes right now, you know. Around just recently NFTs and then now AI and just reminds me a bit of that time.”
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