Phillip,
While I agree with much of what you said, I think that there is a tendency in your thinking to look at the industry from one perspective-the end user- and to view is as a zero sum game. I dont believe this. From the production worker perspective, I dont believe the fully featured PC will ever disappear. Much as the early clairvoyants of the industry foresaw a paperless economy, we know that nothing of the kind has occurred. As well, the fear of massive unemployment from computerization did not occur but rather it's opposite, albeit hats have changed. And that, we know, has occurred throughout history. That's progress. That's life.
The most valuable and most expensive resource a company has had or is ever going to have is human. The employees are the real gold and the tech industry pundits tend to deflect this, focusing more prevently on the tangible new chip or the quantifiable new software package.
And one of the most important aspects of worker productivity, I think, is happiness about doing what one is doing, and the freedom from constraint that that implies. I see the NC as a threat to this world. Please refer to the following article and give me your thoughts.
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regards,
stephen |
