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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (817)	9/9/1998 3:58:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Interesting point about displaced workers. "It took fifty years for the US to go from needing 30 million farmers to needing less than 3 million ... But it took only five years to go from needing three hundred thousand people making and repairing mechanical carburetors to less than thirty thousand... Or only five years to go from needing one hundred thousand people making vinyl records to none..." (Paul Pilzer p.68-69) "The greatest challenge of our century: misunderstanding unemployment could collapse our political system. Imagine a self-sufficient island with ten men, all of whom make their living by fishing with poles from a communal boat. Along comes a missionary who shows the men a new, technologically better way of fishing--using a large net. Now two fishermen, one to pilot the boat and one to throw the net, can catch the same number of fish as ten fishermen could with lines. On the surface, unemployment on the island has risen from zero to 80 percent, since eight of the ten fishermen are now out of a job." (Pilzer, p.231)

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (817)	9/9/1998 7:31:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 2025

news.com High-end notebooks, low-end sales By Michael Kanellos Lower-priced notebooks account for roughly 70 percent of business notebook sales, according to Mike Gumbert, chief operating officer of Insight, a large corporate computer dealer. news.com WebTV more like PC By Jim Davis Philips, Sony, and Mitsubishi are developing a prototype WebTV unit that loads versions of Microsoft Word and Excel for the Windows CE ... which could be loaded from a credit-card-sized "smart card" inserted in the unit What's this smart card they're talking about?? This is news to me. A flash rom? And what's wrong with CDROM? At $30 per in quantity it's hard to see any compelling alternative solid state delivery vehicles. CDROMs are so cheap they're an integral component of $99 Sony Playstations. "This 'revolution' happening is just a rehash of what happened ten or fifteen years ago," he noted, referring to inexpensive computers such as the Commodore 64 that were designed to be hooked up to TVs--without the capability of Internet access.