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Opinion: The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here's why

by AlexDragusin on 10/21/24, 4:27 PM with 2 comments

  • by billconan on 10/21/24, 6:09 PM

    > which at $5,101 per computer at that time equated to about $684 billion in revenue. The number of global internet users was about 361 million in 2000, which at $113 a month equals about $489 billion in revenue ($850 billion in 2024 dollars).

    I have never spent $5101 on a computer or $113 a month for internet access so far.

    And is it reasonable to count computer hardware spending as internet revenue?