At 03:34 1/6/02, Les Clark wrote:
In <1B981EEA6C25D411B94D0050BAD3604B430CC2@CEDAR>, on 01/05/02 at 07:12
PM,
Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>So the "ancient civilizations" fringe are right? Ancient civilizations
>just kept going to shorter- and shorter-lived products and "archival"
>materials until the entire civilization vanished without a trace?
Bingo! or should I say, Whoosh!
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les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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Or, as in the title of an excellent book it's "Disappearing Through the
Skylight." It's a function of major consumer goods corporations pushing to
create a "throw away" society with consumers that use things once (maybe),
throw them away, only to buy a replacement. Example: disposable
diapers. Classic MBA 501. Been going on at least since about 1950.
Classic MBA 502:
Create development trajectories that shorten technological cycle, and
design such that previous iterations of the cycle are incompatible/obsolete
with the next one. Example 1: Successive versions of one of the most
widely used word processor and spreadsheet programs. Try to open a "new"
version file with an old version of the program. New users send old users
files from them and force massive upgrading.
*More*on*topic* Example 2:
Kodak's once-per-decade "new" film introduction (e.g. 127, 620, 616, 828,
126, 110, "instant," disc, and now APS [with Minolta's announcement it will
discontinue making APS cameras]).
-- John
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