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Welcome To The 4th Industrial Revolution
Common Sense Evaluation ^

Posted on 01/09/2017 10:35:40 AM PST by gaggs

An interesting read about the future…

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.

Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years and, most people won’t see it coming.

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To: jimmyray

Lotus Notes is second only to printers in terms of sheer hatred.


41 posted on 01/09/2017 11:35:01 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Mr. Douglas
Silver is the most electrically conductive material . . .

That was a known plus, but electronics hadn't taken center stage yet and the photography was the big selling point.

42 posted on 01/09/2017 11:39:35 AM PST by Oatka
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To: Seruzawa

I went through the Canon 20d, 50d,60d, and T2i.

No complaints about any of those.

I use a GH4 now. Love the Panasonic.


43 posted on 01/09/2017 11:39:54 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Oatka

Connections and the first The Day The Universe Changed should be required viewing.


44 posted on 01/09/2017 11:41:41 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Mr. Douglas

As a bulk material it is, but not on nanoscales....


45 posted on 01/09/2017 11:41:53 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Oatka

Yeah, can’t argue with you there.


46 posted on 01/09/2017 11:47:40 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: wally_bert

I purchased a Kodak microscope camera in the late 90s. It was pretty good and cost a few hundred dollars. The driver worked with Windows 98. They never provided an upgrade to any later versions of Windows. A good camera turned to junk.


47 posted on 01/09/2017 11:53:11 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Oatka
Found "Faith in Numbers" on YouTube - shoulda looked there first.

Check out the equipment used to spot your position using the "new" satellites.

48 posted on 01/09/2017 11:54:52 AM PST by Oatka
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To: Oatka

One of the older relics from my TV production daze told me that the outfit went to tape largely of a big silver shortage a few decades ago.

Until then, anything important was film production.


49 posted on 01/09/2017 11:55:02 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: major-pelham
And it will ever be so. IBM did the opposite of Kodak and thrived.

Also the started IBM consulting and outsourced almost 90% jobs to india.

50 posted on 01/09/2017 11:55:27 AM PST by cssGA30005
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To: Lazamataz

This totally overlooks the need for personal freedom of transportation to wherever they want to go at any time. The driverless car will be an urban only phenomenon and will really be a form of public transportation. If you live in Montana, for example, you better love in Bozeman. Many young weenies don’t even think about life with wife and kids, vacations, grocery trips, etc. Hunting and camping require freedom of mobility. Relocating, evacuating, siteseeing, days at the beach or mountains, forests all will always require a car that can go where you want, not just where Big Brother has pin in the slot roads (metaphorically). Many euros or u.s. snowflakes would not understand these arguments.


51 posted on 01/09/2017 12:00:47 PM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: aquila48

No.
Storage is not a solution to this. Though it can have a marginal or specific effect.

Here’s an article that does pretty well at describing the situation (I’ve seen better though):
http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/energetics/a-look-at-wind-and-solar-part-2

Of course there could, one day in the future, be an amazing advance in storage, or solar production, or in something else.


52 posted on 01/09/2017 12:09:30 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: RedWulf

“nstead they chose to stick to film. Some companies innovate and some companies die.”

Strange. I have a 2MB Kodak digital camera from 1998. I used it for 6 years before replacing it with a 5MB Samsung Digimax. Maybe it was the CF memory cards they used?

I think Kodak simply died from bloated, ineffective, intransigent management -which is what happens with many American tech company failures.


53 posted on 01/09/2017 12:31:14 PM PST by Justa
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

“So, they are redeveloping their niche in the ‘artsy-fartsy’ world; “

This is exactly what happened with Apple. Then, iPods, iPhones, iPads and billions of dollars in value later...


54 posted on 01/09/2017 3:29:53 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: gaggs

The two biggest oil and gas operators in OKC did not even register on the meter 35 years ago. The two biggest operators 35 years ago don’t exist now.

Change is constant and often unkind.


55 posted on 01/09/2017 5:30:27 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: cssGA30005

I never blame the companies for the moves they make, I blame the legal and regulatory policies that get them to do it. America is about many things, but none of it matters at all without economic growth. Unilateral economic disarmament put those jobs in India, not the IBMers.


56 posted on 01/10/2017 5:16:01 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: major-pelham

Companies move offshore to exploit two things: almost zero import duties and cheap 3rd world labor. The meme about regulations and taxes are the excuse, the political fig leaf, to offshore for dirt cheap labor. The term is “global labor arbitrage”. Google it.


57 posted on 01/10/2017 5:26:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: major-pelham
I disagree.
It's corporate greed and corrupt politicians
58 posted on 01/11/2017 7:16:07 AM PST by cssGA30005
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