It is not easy to forecast what is to happen in the future with regard to technological change. However, improving know-how can result in some remarkable things, one of which is dramatically lower energy prices, including a progression away from coal and toward natural gas, which is slightly cleaner. At the same time, the advent of the internet has devastated the postal service and various media enterprises.
Investors fervently look for gains through competing platforms – presumably amid a belief that they are backing innovation and the future.
At a smaller scale, financial media enterprises, that can even be adverse to one’s financial security, are proliferating. Varied sites and broadcast networks do not make it any easier for some to be publicly traded – and you might wonder who can be recruited with shares or stock options. Consider TheStreet (TST), which is doing everything it can to stave off a reverse split.
