Dot-com skepticism about Google, revisited amid the AI boom
A reader argues Michael Lewis misjudged Google in 1999, using a passage from The New New Thing as a caution about predictions during the AI boom.
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A reader revisiting Michael Lewis’s The New New Thing quotes: “With companies called Google going for $75 million, Clark did not see much point in selling air: everyone else was already doing that.” They interpret the passage as Lewis dismissing Google in 1999 and draw a parallel to the AI boom: “Predictions are hard.”
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