AI/Machine Learning

The best of 2025: If you think AI is overhyped, here’s what happened when revolutionary technology emerged 100 years ago

- December 31, 2025 4 MIN READ

Over the Summer break, Startup Daily is republishing key stories from 2025. This analysis by QUT’s Cameron Shackell, compares the introduction and hype around electricity in the 1920s – and those who profiting from it with AI today, and the lessons to learn, and was popular with readers when it came out in October. The… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

If you think AI is being overhyped, check out what happened to a similarly revolutionary technology a century ago

- October 8, 2025 4 MIN READ

The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution. But before electricity faded from a red-hot tech sector into invisible infrastructure, the world went through profound social change, a speculative bubble, a stock market crash, mass unemployment and a decade of… Read more »