6 Sep
2001
6 Sep
'01
8:19 a.m.
As for brand names, I think they will come more and
more to mean
_everything_. After all it has happened with cars it will happen
with computers. 21st century personal computers are rapidly
converging on a relatively fixed function, internet access unit with
data composition and retrieval capabilities.
Anyone that is familiar with automotive history from the turn
of the century up until the late 1950's should be able to see the
parallels in the two industries...it's just happening quicker due to
the faster product cycles with microcomputers.
No doubt the auto industry had a very similar time of
it and today
cars are largely identical except for things like body styling and
number of cup holders. So what used to be special and unique, is now
common and mundane.
My only problem with that analogy is that automobiles are
fairly fixed as to what you can use them for, while computers on the
other hand are bounded only by the imagination and talent of the
programmers.
Jeff
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