CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

From Better Offline by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

June 10, 2026 · 31 min

About this episode

Ed Zitron discusses the decline of tech growth and its impact on the industry.

Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since 2021. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how tech's decline is driving the tech industry to try and sell you useless products like the metaverse, cryptocurrency and generative AI. Original Air Date: 6.5.24 Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Host: Ed Zitron

Topics covered

  • tech decline
  • online growth
  • useless products
  • metaverse
  • cryptocurrency
  • generative AI

Keywords

  • tech decline
  • online growth
  • metaverse
  • cryptocurrency
  • generative AI
  • Ed Zitron

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Products: metaverse, cryptocurrency, generative AI

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