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This is like the articles people used to write about the failure of the paperless office to materialize. The revolution wasn't about literally having no paper a

by raldi 12y ago

This is like the articles people used to write about the failure of the paperless office to materialize. The revolution wasn't about literally having no paper anywhere in the office; it was about being free to use paper for what it's good for (e.g., cheat sheets, brainstorming, scratchwork) and getting it out of the roles where was terrible (archives, data listings, memos...) Similarly, "post PC" just means you're no longer chained to a desk or forced to use Microsoft products -- not that the last PC has been stricken from the Earth.

bradleyland 12y ago
There is nothing a pundit likes more than a false dichotomy. By pushing your opponent to the edge, you makes your counter argument much easier.
legulere 12y ago
Actually more stuff get's printed than ever before.
- Igglyboo 12y ago
  Got a source for that? Almost nothing gets printed in my office.
  - paulgerhardt 12y ago
    "World demand for paper is expected to grow by 2.1% per year until 2020."[1] Though that's not exactly fair analysis. See for instance this graph published by the European Commission Joint Research Center [2][3]. Developed countries will use paper 0.5% more per year (less than population growth of 0.8%) but emerging countries (like China at 0.5% population growth) use it at 4% more per year. [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109000227 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109... [2] http://i.imgur.com/luBKny9.png http://i.imgur.com/luBKny9.png [3] http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22544en.pdf http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22544en.pdf
paulgerhardt 12y ago
Worth a (re)read is David Clark's Post-PC talk from 1999[1]. The use case examples of things may be like in the future are a bit jilted (are they ever not?) but what I genuinely appreciate is two-fold. First, Dr. Clark nails the screen to CPU ratio. For a long time the world was 1 CPU to many screens. The downward trend to 1 screen for every 1 processor is not a floor. Second, the examples proposed don't concern themselves with putting a processor in everything, they concern themselves with what that empowers you to do as a human being. Now that we're well into this era, it is disheartening to see that most companies presenting at places like CES aren't asking themselves that latter part of that question. To your original point, Wired ran a skewed piece like this a few years ago pointing out that the Web is dead because other forms of Internet content (like Netflix) were outpacing it in growth. What it failed to highlight was the Web never stopped growing[2]. [1] http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-david-clark-used-it-first-in-1999/ http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-da... [2] http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/ http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/

by raldi 12y ago

bradleyland 12y ago

There is nothing a pundit likes more than a false dichotomy. By pushing your opponent to the edge, you makes your counter argument much easier.

legulere 12y ago

Actually more stuff get's printed than ever before.

Igglyboo 12y ago
Got a source for that? Almost nothing gets printed in my office.
- paulgerhardt 12y ago
  "World demand for paper is expected to grow by 2.1% per year until 2020."[1] Though that's not exactly fair analysis. See for instance this graph published by the European Commission Joint Research Center [2][3]. Developed countries will use paper 0.5% more per year (less than population growth of 0.8%) but emerging countries (like China at 0.5% population growth) use it at 4% more per year. [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109000227 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109... [2] http://i.imgur.com/luBKny9.png http://i.imgur.com/luBKny9.png [3] http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22544en.pdf http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22544en.pdf

paulgerhardt 12y ago

Worth a (re)read is David Clark's Post-PC talk from 1999[1]. The use case examples of things may be like in the future are a bit jilted (are they ever not?) but what I genuinely appreciate is two-fold. First, Dr. Clark nails the screen to CPU ratio. For a long time the world was 1 CPU to many screens. The downward trend to 1 screen for every 1 processor is not a floor. Second, the examples proposed don't concern themselves with putting a processor in everything, they concern themselves with what that empowers you to do as a human being. Now that we're well into this era, it is disheartening to see that most companies presenting at places like CES aren't asking themselves that latter part of that question. To your original point, Wired ran a skewed piece like this a few years ago pointing out that the Web is dead because other forms of Internet content (like Netflix) were outpacing it in growth. What it failed to highlight was the Web never stopped growing[2]. [1] http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-david-clark-used-it-first-in-1999/ http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-da... [2] http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/ http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/