Though Schmidt's recent comments (see above) at this year's Sun Valley conference hints we've got another tech bubble on our hands, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues otherwise.

Miss Birbili thinks giant, high-tech blades, looming over the wine-dark sea, could become an equally welcome sight.

The same goes for those die-hard technology-oriented investors who are fondly remembering the Internet boom, and who are therefore hoping for a replay of the go-go years of the late 1990s.