Just a few decades ago, back in 1969 when I was studying logistics, we had a monster computer, lodged in an air conditioned building, with myriads of bulbs.
It was a hard task to learn how to learn the mysteries of the little slots meaning “void and filled”, one and zero, as the basis of the perforated cards, the COBOL or Common Business Oriented Language programming system, and the rest of the early computer paraphernalia stages.
We just dreamed about, the around the corner, coming third generation of computers that would use transistors instead of bulbs. We never imagined what is just an everyday unending and growing sophistication of the gadgets of today.
It was a hard task to learn how to learn the mysteries of the little slots meaning “void and filled”, one and zero, as the basis of the perforated cards, the COBOL or Common Business Oriented Language programming system, and the rest of the early computer paraphernalia stages.
We just dreamed about, the around the corner, coming third generation of computers that would use transistors instead of bulbs. We never imagined what is just an everyday unending and growing sophistication of the gadgets of today.
I honestly believe there has never been such a sudden and overwhelming flooding of technological development that has fueled the sizzling consumerism of today.
I remember at that time learning in my finance management training the principle of obsolescence, where you, at the same time learnt to plan, develop, envision and visualize, not only what you had on hand but its potential and inevitable replacement.
I remember at that time learning in my finance management training the principle of obsolescence, where you, at the same time learnt to plan, develop, envision and visualize, not only what you had on hand but its potential and inevitable replacement.
For these reasons I am not surprised by what is now the subject of so many harangues and complaints about the irrational consumerism of today.
The assembling techniques, the development of the already stated “obsolescence principle” now see themselves carried away to the ultimate sophistication stages.
And their end result products fill the radio waves, the television screens, and the cybernetic presentations, as in the latest presentation of the World Social Forum that took place in Belem, Brazil, in late January and early February 2009
The assembling techniques, the development of the already stated “obsolescence principle” now see themselves carried away to the ultimate sophistication stages.
And their end result products fill the radio waves, the television screens, and the cybernetic presentations, as in the latest presentation of the World Social Forum that took place in Belem, Brazil, in late January and early February 2009
Little chips, little things, little peripheral additions are visualized to keep the market going and the consumers buying.
But one thing remains unchanged as we were told in those early days. Planning logically and in sequence, as this is the only base for change and evolution. As in the Spanish saying: dress me slow because I am in a hurry.
But one thing remains unchanged as we were told in those early days. Planning logically and in sequence, as this is the only base for change and evolution. As in the Spanish saying: dress me slow because I am in a hurry.
And our instructors emphasized the need for us to remember that there is an axiom in everything: if you let garbage get into the system, you will only obtain garbage as the end result, despite how exquisitely disguised!The logical end result has been that the common guy in our present generations has become extremely skilled in the usage of what the fewer in number thinkers, and programmers, have devised for what has become a trinket acquisitions world.
I am a trinket buyer and consumer, as the rest of all my brethren, as my wife jokingly say. But I still keep in my inner being that certitude that everything that repeats itself more than three times requires a systematic approach, planning and development.
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