At 03:11 PM 9/1/00 -0600, you wrote:
> But I
>believe the truth of the matter is many fear that, without "designed
>obsolescence", there can be no flow of New Economy cash. In other
>words, there seems to be no time for reflection on what has worked
>and what has been *really* necessary with home PCs -- instead, we
>see loads of time spent on *projection* of profit-making opportunities
>at the expense of practical, uncomplicated uses for *appropriately
>powered* PCs: reading, writing and arithmatic! And, naturally,
>existing editions of DOS for the older machines are certainly adequate
>for these uses. The rest of the "bells and whistles" technology seems
>more and more to be materializing into one vast commercial display of
>who can out "gee-whiz" the next guy and make more money. That's very,
>very shallow, in my opinion.
The people I know who buy new machines rather than second hand machines, or
who upgrade from their old second hand machines to new ones, invariably
cite gaming or streaming multimedia as the reason. They want the newest
virtual reality, raw action, detailed back grounds, first person shooter
networked blood bath and they want it to run as fast as real time. Or,
they like to download videos from the net and want them to run
smoothly. Some few others will sometimes upgrade so they can run the
latest office software from work on their home PC. One fellow I know did
upgrade reluctantly due to market force, he bought a printer or scanner or
something that wouldn't run without the latest windows. The conceptiont
that the upgrading is all profit motivated/driven is not entirely
true. The desire for more realistic games and more video resolution and to
have live video chat are much more the driving force behind the
technological upgrading. People want their computers to be as rich as
their TV, as fast as a light switch, and fully interactive. They don't
want to sit and wait five minutes for their spreadsheet to do an array
calculation. They want to be able to create detailed graphics in no more
time than it takes to choose the commands.
We can sit and theorize on the nasty capitalists all we like, but the
common man is the demand producer who encourages and supports them in the
first place. it was gaming and pornography that took the web beyond text,
and it is those things which will take computers into the 21st century as
pocket sized multimedia interfaces.
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