Science & Tech Quote by James Daly

Calling the Internet “the bubble” sounds like the kind of easy metaphor that flatters the speaker: look at me, I’m not fooled by the hype. Daly’s pushback needles that posture. “Incredibly misguided” isn’t polite disagreement; it’s a stage slap, delivered with an actor’s instinct for timing and emphasis. The line is less about defending a technology than about puncturing a particular habit of mind: the reflex to treat a new medium as a fad simply because it rearranges power and attention.

The intent reads as corrective and status-conscious. In entertainment, “bubble” talk is often code for “this will pop, so I don’t have to adapt.” Daly’s phrasing implies he’s seen this movie before: radio was supposed to be a novelty, television a cheap intruder, film itself a threat to live theater. Each time, the people who dismissed the medium weren’t just wrong about longevity; they misunderstood how a communications platform becomes infrastructure. Once a medium rewires distribution, taste-making, and gatekeeping, it stops behaving like a speculative craze and starts behaving like plumbing.

The subtext is a warning to cultural elites: you can’t opt out of a system that’s becoming the default stage. Calling it “the bubble” is a way to keep your old rules intact. Daly’s line insists the real story isn’t inflated value, it’s shifted reality: who gets to speak, who gets paid, who gets seen, and how quickly the audience decides without asking permission.