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The paywalled article cites Boeing, Wells Fargo and Facebook. They seem like different situation. Boeing is the more significant topic and it actually seems s
by joe_the_user 8y ago
The paywalled article cites Boeing, Wells Fargo and Facebook.
They seem like different situation.
Boeing is the more significant topic and it actually seems similar to the rise and then decline of the American life expectancy. In this instance, a continuing increase in medical technology can no longer keep up with declines in living standards and the increases in unhealthy behavior.
Boeing's problem come as a highly competent company pushes tech to the limit and then resorts to variety of unhealthy shortcuts to guarantee cost savings.
In both these cases, you have systems with a vast array of competent people, often making the locally optimal decisions but pushed by global pressures until they can't make things work.
Another analogous situation would be Intel.
The about these situation is the pressures aren't likely restricted to the US and aren't likely to go away.
- acqq 8y ago> Boeing's problem come as a highly competent company pushes tech to the limit and then resorts to variety of unhealthy shortcuts to guarantee cost savings. No. It is just that managers “sold” what’s beyond physical limits. With addition of more incompetent decisions in implementing basically wrong selling point.
- joe_the_user 8y agoNo. It is just that managers “sold” what’s beyond physical limits. Selling what's beyond physical limits is pretty much what I'm talking about. The pressure to do this selling came because Airbus was selling nearly equivalent claims - but with planes that required some retraining. So you had both push and pull. Moreover, the pressure for selling what's beyond physical limits comes as you previously had a steady stream of progress pushing physical limits. Not exactly analogous to the end of Moore's law but it seems like there are some similarities.