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To: wsringeorgia who wrote (55217)	1/8/2001 8:41:18 AM
From: Mike M2	Respond to of 436258

WSR, I saw a program on the logging industry on the history channel. As i recall, the gas powered chain saw was not used until after WWII ( 1950?) another example of tremendous productivity boost from I/C along with diesel powered Cats to drag these cut trees. Now they have a machine ( I can't remember its name) operated by one man that is similar to a cherry picker with a saw blade on the end. This machine grabs the tree, cuts it about 1 minute, removes all the branches in less than 1 minute, then moves the entire tree to a pile to be hauled off. Who needs limber anyhow -g- ? mike

To: wsringeorgia who wrote (55217)	1/8/2001 10:19:45 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 436258

I think that agriculture statistic is right, I don't know what the current percentage is now but it's minuscule these days. Still the information age and what that entails will have profound effects. I believe the printing press was one of the key triggers of the renaissance, wasn't it? Right now lack of general end to end bandwidth is a real bottleneck, all this copper loop telephone wiring everywhere HAS TO GO. It was really the fact that cheap PCs finally had enough memory, clock speed, graphics, address space, etc. that caused things to reach critical mass. No thanks to Microsoft or Intel in that regard. The end user bandwidth situation now is like early home computers which were just toys. I'm unsure how long it's going to take to do the last mile but it'll be harder than getting everyone a low cost home PC. Maybe the entertainment industry will finally finance a lot of it. The money spent on entertainment in all forms is unthinkable and that's an area that would certainly consume bandwidth. Look how the audio CD turned into the CDROM as an example of this.