--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darryl Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I don't think the author was arguing that there has been a
>revolution in technology exactly. Just that several incremental
>improvements in technology have created a revolution. Each >individual
>advance is not that special, but when you put them all >together you are in
>a whole new ballpark.
>
Well, I probably wasn't as clear as I wanted to be, because I understood
that point. What I was arguing against was the concept that the effects of
these changes caused a relatively quick revolution that was seen in the
latter half of the 1990s. Instead, I see continuous improvement from the
early '80s to the late '90s, with benefits being harvested at a fairly
steady clip.
We are definitely in a different ballpark than we were in the early 1980s.
But, having lived through the changes year by year, I see the improvements
in a somewhat different light than that which was portrayed in the article.
I see them as gradual and continuous, and not quantum.
Dan'm Traeki Ring of Crystallized Knowledge.
Known for calculating, but not known for shutting up
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