All bubbles burst
Isn't
it beautiful to watch kids blowing bubbles and gaze at them float up
on their journey into the sky?
Close your eyes and put yourself into a young child's shoes. As these bubbles float across, one might be tempted to touch it, hold it in your palms or maybe just poke it. Do what you may feel like, but one thing can be said about the state of the bubble – its going to burst at some point of time.
Close your eyes and put yourself into a young child's shoes. As these bubbles float across, one might be tempted to touch it, hold it in your palms or maybe just poke it. Do what you may feel like, but one thing can be said about the state of the bubble – its going to burst at some point of time.
Is
there anything beautiful that can survive forever?
What is forever?
All life is finite. Just as the liquid that starts off to form a
wonderful, colorful floating sphere that manages to float away, only
to pop in mid air.
All
good things in life would have a fate that is predetermined, rather
impending. Now try to relate the above understanding with the
metaphorical technology bubble bursts of our times.
Its
been 25 years since an online Magna Carta was inked in March 1989,
after a British computer scientist named Tim Berners Lee implemented
what is known by the 'internet'
or 'world
wide web'.
His vision of the web was a collaborative medium for people to create and communicate freely. Internet was a democratic revelation for technology lovers and the 'dot-com' movement was just the beginning.
His vision of the web was a collaborative medium for people to create and communicate freely. Internet was a democratic revelation for technology lovers and the 'dot-com' movement was just the beginning.
As
the internet peaked with web lovers loving the bubble that had
started to float around, the burst happened during late 90s . A lot
of the dot-com based companies lost their share value and resulted in
the dot-com
or telecom
bubble burst,
following which the entire economy slipped into recession in 2001.
A
new bubble then started to get formed around 2004, with an
improvement from the previous web bubble, which mostly had passive
viewing content. This new bubble saw the rise of social media with
more refreshing user generated content, and the web comeback was
termed 'Web
2.0'.
This is when we had begun familiarizing with file sharing, social
networking, blogging, web applications etc.
This
continued till 2007 when internet browsing only meant that you were
surfing on a Personal Computer (PC) with networking capability.
It took a Steve Jobs and his company to change the perception by introducing smart phones that began to transform the browsing experience. As the web moved from a PC to smaller device, software was written specifically for these smart devices by the name mobile applications.
It took a Steve Jobs and his company to change the perception by introducing smart phones that began to transform the browsing experience. As the web moved from a PC to smaller device, software was written specifically for these smart devices by the name mobile applications.
So it goes without saying why companies like Microsoft and Nokia had a bad time after Samsung and Apple led the smartphone race. For software service providers like Google and Facebook who managed to enlarge their bubble, they continue to have a whale of a time and are looking at changing the smartphone usage to suit their ways.
With
that being the case we can expect a smart
phone bubble burst
soon, with Samsung, Apple and other players needing to redefine their
strategy to survive in this game.
Does
all bubbles have to burst?
If the bubble creator where in a bubble of
sorts, would it not survive and carry on bringing more beautiful
bubbles to life. Simply put, an incubator that incubates and accelerates
life could be a bubble that cannot be deflated completely.
If
there is a bubble that cannot be fully deflated, it is one that gives
life to life itself.
