Foxconn growth: pcr-online.biz It has been 30% per year, now reducing to 15%. That, for a company of their size, is a large growth rate. <Unlike employment in the 'knowledge economy', logging is an industry that has seen average hours rise recently, implying higher demand.
MQ, botther, forget knowledge. Let´s move the materials. >
For the first time ever, people are in the process of creating extra-somatic intelligence. Thinking and knowledge are the most valuable things there are, along with VVV. Termites eat trees, beavers use them for dams, woodpeckers get dinner, squirrels hide in them, birds sleep in them, chimps climb around in them in training for pole climber jobs. I like some trees too. Cutting them down and climbing them is enjoyable and a natural state for humans. But cyberspace is where the big money is.
Those poles you climb end fibre you install are for moving memory, thinking and observing.
Trees are so last millennium. Look at the growth rate in Zenbu Message 26730174 Count the Android phones. Watch people in an Apple store. At the wood shop, there are not many people crowding in. Young people want cyberspace devices, not chisels, saws, planes, spoke shaves, and all those other wood working devices I grew up with [I can't even remember their names now]. Does Experiment crave wood working equipment or lean towards mobile cyberspace devices?
Notice how TJ talks a good line about gold but has naughty weekends away with his De-Vice, leaving his gold and wife to mind the family while he cerfs cyberspace, swishing around with his CDMA/OFDM powered gadgets.
Watch young people - their De-Vices are held tightly and consulted constantly. They are not thinking wooden thoughts.
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