On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:09:24 +0200
Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>
> You have a very good point there. Considering the fact that the
> productivity increase of pc users over the last 20 years was next to
> null, the import of cheap vintage computers will bring third world
> businesses and organizations on par with us rich people. Well rich, I
> mean not poor yet... With the stock exchanges crashing, the
> unemployment rising, a war at hand and another 4 years of devastating
> socialist rule in Germany we might not stay rich.
>
> Marten
I once heard an economics professor lecture that there indeed had been
substantial productivity gains from computerization, but that most of the
benefit had been from the mere fact of using computers in the 1st place, &
that since then, there have been mostly diminishing returns per each unit of
further investment. Of course, most of the money spent since then has been
the result of the hardware & software companies keeping us all (well, maybe
not the people on this list...) on the upgrade treadmill. Ditto for the 1st
introduction of laptops, cell phones, faxes, etc., into an office.
I mean, aside from some rather marginal gimmicks (& also, of course, I have
to exclude graphics, web design, & multimedia work, all of which really do
require substantial horsepower -- I'm talking mostly business productivity
software here), how much does the latest version of Office, which only runs
on the latest PPCs & Pentium Whatevers, really do for you...you've got
email, some Excel stuff, charting & graphing, maybe typing something into a
letter window...above & beyond what productivity software did for you 10
years ago?
--
Over,
Jutso
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