From: corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Start again.
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:07:19 GMT
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In article <1310@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM> ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley) writes:
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>Then again, I think most of what is on the TV is crap, so I don't own 
>one. ;-)

No argument there. ;-)

>Monopolization of industry. Hmmm. Well, I guess it has it's benefits 
>but it has it's down side too. Once a product and manufacturer own the 
>market, a small, new company with a better product may be successfully 
>kept out of the market, creating stagnation and a failure to advance 
>the technology. There's a compromise here somewhere.

Yes, there must be a compromise somewhere. Regulations that say, for example
the company X produces telecommunications equipment and services (a la AT&T).
Today, if inventor A comes along with a new innovation, he's gobbled up
by the big company. If his product improves the quality of telecomm, but
lowers the profits made by the Company X, then X will hide the innovation in
a bunch of legal bushwa, and it'll never hit the market. Much like what we
suspect the auto industry has done to the 100+ mpg cars. The oil industries
lose because we'd buy less fuel. There have to be some regulations that allow
Company X to exist, but demand that new innovations be utilized for the
benefit of all, and not the profits of X. It's all a matter of mindset, but
until we feel we can trust the people at the top, it's going to be a long 
time coming.

>Yes, a lot of the new products that come on the market are just the 
>same old stuff dressed in flash and sparkle. I guess the way to get 
>this waste of resourse out of the marketplace is not to buy it, and 
>that involves the change of conciousness that I've mentioed in other 
>posts, along with a little truth in advertising. Now this is a real 
>problem in the computer industry because the technology is moving so 
>fast that you almost *have* to buy new hardware every five years just 
>to be able to communicate, use new software, hell, even make the 
>technology functional in the world! That is one of the problems with a
>technological boom, although the benifits far outweigh it.

High tech industry in general and the computer industry in particular are
changing so rapidly that it's difficult to keep up. Yet these things are
going to help us make the next leap in growth as a species.

>One thing is for sure though. We *don't* need another beaurocratic 
>agency restricting the marketplace. What we may need is a re-vamping 
>and re-structuring of some of the existing ones. Maybe.

It's the restrictions on the marketplace, and the ability for the people
controlling the major maunfacturers of our consumer products to place those
restrictions that keeps us fighting for the Almighty Dollar(tm). The people
at the top are only interested in making more profits, not improving the
quality of life. Like I said, it's all a matter of mindset.

Bb,
Corun



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