Bubble

Here’s a short prediction for 2008: one of the biggest buzzwords of the upcoming year will be “bubble”. The housing market in the states is a bubble already bursting, Web 2.0 is supposedly a bubble, green tech is a bubble waiting to happen and the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been bubbling for quite some time.

Now, granted, these are all bubbles already mentioned and should be put on the 2007 list, but these are just the beginning. Most all of these are yet to burst: imagine the coverage when one or more should. It won’t be pretty.

Buzzwords have the unique quality of being used, and used excessively: I expect to see “bubble” follow this path in 2008.