As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble, experiencing the breakthrough of the Internet in the early 1990s and worked in technology during the boom later in the decade, I’ve been asked what I think of the AI phenomenon going on in the mid 2020s. Yes, I chose that wording for a reason. Time will tell if it’s best called an AI boom, an AI bubble, or something worse like an AI scam.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
