Never underestimate youth to rebel against hi-tech and suddenly label those with cellular as uncool, buttoned down conformist. Youth be wildly fickle.
I put my bet on the table, wireless has no future other than that which tech-heads hype in their materialistic dead-end.
The underpinning of the tech wreck is all the sci-fi hype that preceded it.
It takes MONEY sufficiently received to be profitable in wireless, they can't get customers without pricing themselves down to ever increasing debt.(Sprint got a Moody's downgrade yesterday)
Raise the price they lose their customers.
NYT had a poll of Cellular users, and guess what won hands down and easy, the standard telephone. Only 10% said they would forsake the telephone for cellular.
Hey, not like what i hear from techies "hey the telephone is dead, everybody will just be cellular."
They also found out that cellular people when they first get cellular, use it a good deal; however, in the main they use cellular less and less as they get bored with the novelty.
tech has this idea people will just happily subcribe to wireless and cable and internet , and get the giant flat-panel tv and buy DVDs endlessly. Sorry, the reality is, most can't, that is without being disconnected for lack of payment.
Been reading where some familes are 'grounding' their kids from cellular as part of budget cutting.
My personal sense it is the DVD player and DVDs that will be the winner.
And flat-panel digital tv has growth ahead.
Basically i see a simple tranference from VCR to DVD and the old box TV to HDTV Flat-Panel. With cable winning in the end over wireless, except in niche areas like mine that have no cable and use DTV/DISH.
I believe the internet is leveling off, and soon , after parents realize they are raising a generation of dangerously dumb video game addicts, the brakes will be put on that area.
When i see kids going endlessly at their video games i realize their life must be pretty hollow; and that parents have given up parenting, and the dumbing of america just gets worse. Max. p.s. yes, i believe children should be challenged to be curious, learn to learn that learning is fun, and remember their are books to read . I don't underestimate the ability of children to learn, but it, in most, it requires a teacher.
O i do love to hear what the tech theologist would say to my view, LOL! |
