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[OM] Re: The new digital discourse [was: Looking back and forward]

Subject: [OM] Re: The new digital discourse [was: Looking back and forward]
From: Steve Dropkin <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:36:13 -0600
Bill Pearce wrote:

>  There is tremendous market pressure to sell more product 
>> of any kind. Selling someone an item they can use for a couple of 
>> decades does not meet that directive. Therefore the product must be 
>> made obsolete or made to fail in a reasonable amount of time, 
> 
> Ah, Steve...perhaps a man old enough to remember Planned Obsolescence?

Sadly, yes. And maybe a man old enough to have become quite jaded 
about "New! New!! NEW!!!" :-p

Steve

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