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throw0101atoday at 11:28 AM0 repliesview on HN

> The greatest tech revolution by far and people on this site are trying to movie their money away from it. I hope y'all will do an honest retrospective in a year or so.

It does not necessarily follow that it being a technological revolution also means that it is a good investment—at least, perhaps, at this point in time. Railroads were a tech revolution, but a lot of them—and their investors—went bankrupt once the hype subsided and the overbuilding stopped. Once consolidation happened after their crash then railroads became a stable investment.

There are numerous examples of this in history, starting with (at least) canals; see Perez:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...