Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
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My brother in law sent me this, I think it poses as many questions as it does answers, however it is non the less something that people have to consider.
B.E.
http://www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv
B.E.
http://www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv





RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
TygerDawg
RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
Nintendo spends more on research than the US overnment? Heck, there's a lot of money in supplying games to gamers...
150 million telephone calls every second? What is it all these people are talking to each other about?
3,000 books published every day? Who is reading these? Are they any good? Who is paying for them? does that mean that 3,000 peer reviews happened prior to the books being published?
And a week's worth of New York Times contains more information than someone got in a month in what, 1810? Big deal.
WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN???
It means this: without fancy laptops that cost only $100, men landed on the moon and broadcast sound and images back to earth. We haven't improved on that in nearly 40 years. All the predictions of hotels in space by 2001 didn't come true and are bascially a joke. Isn't that amazing?
Shift happens... but so what? Who has all this time to play on their Nintendo systems? Doesn't anyone care that it takes a lot of natural resources to make them fancy Playstations?
...and how come Bill Gates just doesn't BUY everyone a laptop?
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By the way, it's the 21st century and we STILL don't have a machine that can iron shirts. What has mankind been doing all the time?
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P.S. Actually there are two machines that can "iron" shirts, Siemens makes one and Electrolux developed another (I know because friends of mine developed it). They don't actually iron but they do use moist air to remove all the wrinkles automatically.
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RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
It's interesting too, to look back at predictions made a 100 or 50 years ago and see how wrong they were about the future.
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Case in point regarding new knowledge outdating old knowledge: the integral of e^x is still e^x and will remain so to the end of time. The common cold is likely to remain our nemesis for the near future.
TTFN
RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
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RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
Can you remember where you saw it ?
How does it compare?
B.E.
RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
This presentation is designed to elicit an emotional response...but falls short of supporting the claims it implies. For example, it states that the top 25% of Chinese IQs exceed the population of the US. You'll note that it does not say what that median IQ score is? So, all they are really saying is that there are more than 4 times as many Chinese as Americans...is that a problem?
What? you think you're some kind of Jedi playing all that ominous music like that?....emotional mind-tricks don't work on me....only data.... (to paraphrase).
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Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
-- Albert Einstein
RE: Keeping ahead of the obsolescence curve
My sister lives in china, and she struggles to find people who speak english.
I believe that India currently has the worlds largest population of english speakers - I dont see that causing major problems at the moment.
Chinas population works both ways, they produce more goods but they also need more goods.
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We have more dumb people than population of US. So you see this argumant is going nowhere.
Ciao.