Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : MDA - Market Direction Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (39200)	2/4/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: bobby beara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Heinz, there is no doubt about the productivity gains that technology has given us, there is just the law of diminishing returns. I actually believe that the amount of information has reached such an extreme level, that this is causing overload and actually cutting into productivity gains. Also, you look at a chart of overtime hours worked in the last 20 years, it's rising steadily, just like the stock market. people are connected to this info slave now 24 hours a day. business cards use to have and address and a phone #. NOW: PAGER FAX EMAIL WEB ADDRESS CELL PHONE TOLL FREE 800 # -b

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (39200)	2/4/2000 10:19:00 PM
From: Casaubon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

Heinz, I do not subscribe to the new era theory but, increased productivity has influenced many old era endeavors. There is no doubt that the drug development time cycle has been reduced. Not only has this reduced the time from the lab to the clinic, but the specificity of the new drugs allow for easier read-outs (clinical endpoints) in trials. Thus the amount of time (and BIG MONEY), and the number of actual clinical trials, necessary to determine the fate of a new therapeutic agents has been radically reduced.