[Shin Geun-young column] Memories of AI storms and dot-com bubbles
The whole world seems to be fascinated by AI these days. Every industry, every company, is adopting AI right now, and if you don't do something, you'll soon feel like you're doomed.
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What happened
The whole world seems to be fascinated by AI these days. Every industry, every company, is adopting AI right now, and if you don’t do something, you’ll soon feel like you’re doomed. But I remember clearly, from 1999 to 2000, as the Internet boom hit the world, I witnessed a phenomenon where the stock price of a publicly traded company jumped by tens of percent by just giving it the name of a dot-com. With the venture boom, ventures even appeared in TV soap opera ambassadors. I remember seeing a scene where an acquaintance asked me what my son was doing, and a wife boasted that our son was going to a venture company. At a time when the dot-com bubble was skyrocketing, if you’re an IT company, whether you’re a software development company, a hardware sales company, or a privately held company that hasn’t even gone public…
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TokenPost RSS: https://www.tokenpost.kr/news/insights/419688
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CoinPost RSS: https://coinpost.jp/?p=741693
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Editorial source check time: 2026-10-08T03:01:41.593Z
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