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Companies that will dominate 20 years from now won't exist for another 19 years, so..
by mfukar 16y ago
Companies that will dominate 20 years from now won't exist for another 19 years, so..
- mahmud 16y agoSo it takes a year to go from zero to a position of global dominance?
- mfukar 16y agoIf that's all you got from that sentence, I'm terribly, terribly sorry.
- Radix 16y agoThat's also all I got. Maybe you weren't as clear as you believe and your sarcasm is misplaced.
- mahmud 16y agomfukar, I think you have been unjustly burried with the downvotes there, but I really wish you would come back with an explanation. Did you mean that in 20 years, technology would progress so rapidly that change will be near instantaneous?
- mfukar 16y agoI meant that even today, it's near impossible to predict the state of the economy next week, let alone in 20 years. We're also talking about a completely different society, like most societies changed from the '60s to the '80s and so forth. Different needs, different priorities, different state of affairs in a global level. Take Google, for instance. Google first offered a useful product on 1998. Turned a profit first in 2001 ($105 mil). Its IPO took place in 2004 ($23 bn, wasn't it?). Even if one were so dense as to deny the upcoming global dominance of Google (at least in online search) back in 2000, those timeframes are so off the 20 year mark it's not even funny. And yes, of course I expect progress (regardless of scale) in the future to take place a lot faster. We've already seen trends spread overnight. Who says someone won't be able to capitalize on such internet behaviour? Even if I'm too irrelevant to tell, I seriously doubt there won't be someone in 20 years' time.
- mahmud 16y agoWoah, I think I like you better when you're wordy and spell everything out. Thanks for the exposition!