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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (3198)	7/25/2003 1:26:36 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4907

The irony is that simple statement of yours proved Gilder's point perfectly. How much money would Heinz have saved anyone if he'd written those posts on a stand alone word processor alone in his apartment in Vienna instead of one attached to the Net? That conversation sounds familiar, I do believe I remember reading it if not commenting (or muttering to myself). After twenty years in IT and consulting I'm quite certain that only a low percentage of machines, and their users of course, ever reach anything approximating Gilder's lofty outlook...

To: GraceZ who wrote (3198)	7/25/2003 2:07:51 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4907

How much money would Heinz have saved anyone if he'd written those posts on a stand alone word processor alone in his apartment in Vienna instead of one attached to the Net? -ggg I think you would have to determine how much time is wasted on the internet to really determine the productivity gains...

To: GraceZ who wrote (3198)	7/25/2003 2:18:28 AM
From: NOW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4907

net loss given how much more "productive" Gilder was in his publishing.

To: GraceZ who wrote (3198)	7/25/2003 3:18:51 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4907

Hi Grace, I disagree. proved Gilder's point perfectly on a stand alone word processor alone in his apartment in Vienna instead of one attached to the Net? -ggg- In the loosest sense stretched and contorted yes but obviously one needs to weigh the content in the equation.. There is activity and then there is productivity. Folks often confuse them. regards Kastel

To: GraceZ who wrote (3198)	7/25/2003 3:34:44 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4907

<Later you brought up the discussion, remarking how Heinz had saved so many people so much money by pointing out the flaws in Gilder's view. > Don't remember that...and I doubt he saved anyone much money... it was posted on SI. -ggg- <Gilder countered that computers weren't simple stand alone word processors because with the advent of the Net they had the ability to instantly publish to thousands making them far more valuable.> Actually, the net proved how the speed of the computer and hedonic adjustments used by the government had little to do with productivity and how awry such a system can go. It was the net, and not the computer at all. <The irony is that simple statement of yours proved Gilder's point perfectly. How much money would Heinz have saved anyone if he'd written those posts on a stand alone word processor alone in his apartment in Vienna instead of one attached to the Net?> And so, while I'd love to take credit, it's not quite that way... and certainly not perfectly. :) Besides, if there was much of an effect, think of all the investment banking business that would be destroyed! DAK