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To: Cogito who wrote (103815)	2/12/2009 1:17:49 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542019

The development of microcomputers and large interconnected networks was a one-time occurrence. As was countless other important developments over time. And you don't just need computers and interconnected networks to deal with this issue, you need software, and you need techniques, both on the computer side, and on the side of physically managing the inventory. and such these kinds of breakthroughs are rare. Not really. The improvements needed for many problems are not so big. In this case it was a bigger problem so it required a number of improvements, that combined could be considered a breakthrough, but the improvements aren't rare.