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Strange, I read it and had the opposite reaction. With the exception of the 'steel mill' quote you mentioned, I think he got it mostly right. Even that can be
by gd1 12y ago
Strange, I read it and had the opposite reaction. With the exception of the 'steel mill' quote you mentioned, I think he got it mostly right. Even that can be argued to be right to a degree, for a time the mainframe model was in vogue and now we're moving towards the 'cloud'. The little change mentioned between 1913 and 1967 was with reference to the overall trajectory of industrial economies, not technological innovation.
The main thrust was about the increasing importance of knowledge and information, where he was spot on.
- tgflynn 12y agoYes but that's a very broad observation that I suspect many people could have arrived at. Generalization is important but if the person doing the generalizing is so ill-informed about the details of their world I think the likelihood of their generalizations being correct is rather low.
- bewo001 12y agoIf you replace 'steel mill' with 'data center', he was not so far off. At least if you don't count phones, tablets, laptops as computers.