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Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago

By Cameron Shackell, Sessional Academic, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology

AI is showing some of the hallmarks of another technology’s rapid rise and fall back in the 1920s. These are the lessons we could learn.

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