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Shift Happens
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:22 pm
by dl meckes
The link to this video was posted on the Heights Observatory...
http://tinyurl.com/27oedn
(video only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
It's a fascinating little power point presentation.
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:05 pm
by sharon kinsella
Put's us in our place and where is that?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:16 pm
by Stephen Eisel
sharon kinsella wrote:Put's us in our place and where is that?
longing for the 50's
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:56 pm
by Jeff Endress
Nice that the soundtrack was from "Braveheart" cause what I was reading sure made me feel somewhat barbaric.....
Jeff
Shift Happens
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:38 pm
by sharon kinsella
This is a very eye opening and interesting video on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
It's one of those things that make you MMMMMM!
that is very interesting
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:58 pm
by ryan costa
That is very interesting.
Someone at Mahalls had an interesting anecdote about the last recession in southeast Ohio: a lot of the small game had been nearly wiped out. (squirrels, raccoons, woodchucks?). Wiped out by hungry people. Technically, a rifle and a few boxes of ammunition represent greater technology and economic output than a roast duck or lamb or 200 pound sack of potatoes.
With a laptop things are different. You can get a credit card with fake information, go online, and order a pizza. If you are smart you can order it delivered to an abandoned or foreclosed home, then sneak away with it. The pizza franchise corporation would have to hire a contractor to build software that keeps track of foreclosed properties and connects it to the online pizza ordering server. That could be one of the technologies that hasn't been invented yet.
Here is an interesting book: It is called
Turbo-Capitalism. It isn't radical at all. It may even be conservative. I'm not sure if it is conservative or radical. It is good analysis though.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:44 pm
by sharon kinsella
That looks interesting Ryan - thanks.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:07 pm
by sharon kinsella
OMG - I need to take a nap, I reposted dl's link as a new thread.
I meant to do it on another forum. Sorry.
it keeps going
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:14 am
by ryan costa
it keeps going. There are sizeable markets in America where pizza places no longer make deliveries. Because the delivery men are robbed. But then the pizza places get hit with class action law suits for "discrimination" and stuff.
In the future maybe Robots will deliver the pizzas. There will be a law against pizza places not delivering pizza. So they will have to lease Robots to deliver the pizza. the Robots would be controlled by a virtual reality interface to some teenager in China wearing virtual reality gear to control the robot. It will take a robust internet connection. The Robots will have to be bulletproof and have unbreakable titanium bones. They will also have to be capable of delivering Karate Chops and Knuckle Sandwiches. So only the top pizza chains will be able to finance the leasing of pizza delivery robots, and refusing to deliver pizzas will be against the law for pizza places.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:58 am
by Joe Ott
Interesting DL. Some of those little factoids are a bit depressing.
China is coming on strong. We haven't seen anything yet.
Guess what they were doing in China last night while America watched American Idol...
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/haha_america.jsp?channelKeyword=channel_politics_society
Warning: the above video as some foul language in it and it's about 16 minutes long.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:13 am
by Stephen Eisel
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of that film.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:29 am
by Stephen Eisel
China is coming on strong. We haven't seen anything yet.
So strong that they had a 24% drop in manufacturing jobs between 1995 - 2002?
facts vs fiction
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:40 am
by Stephen Eisel