Srinagar, Jan. 21 -- Every major technological shift arrives with excitement, excess, and anxiety. In the late 1990s, the Internet triggered the dot-com bubble, an era of speculation that ended in collapse but ultimately reshaped the global economy. Today, Artificial Intelligence stands at a similar crossroads, prompting the question: Is AI another bubble waiting to burst, or a lasting transformation?

There are similarities, but the differences are crucial. The dot-com era was driven largely by speculative investment in companies with weak or non-existent business models, many of them dependent on borrowed money. When the bubble burst, thousands failed. Yet survivors such as Amazon and eBay emerged stronger, proving that technological re...