What if Silicon Valley never updated the 486?
My first PC... that's it. The IBM 486. Awww yeah sheer power.
What if IBM, Intel, and generally Silicon Valley never bothered to get off the 486? It just hopelessly plowed 486 after 486 on us. We liked big, powerful (at the time), PC's. Hell this one cost like 10k. My father bought it through the university for work. I remember using Volkswriter on it. But what if IBM never got off the 486. And after years of just staying stagnet, and the famed Fijuitsu FM Towns continued to kick their asses, just never innovated, and then comes the government, stepping in to say, hey man, let's upgrade this stuff.
Seeing all this governement intervention on the behalf of the current US auto industry is sad. Personally GM deserves to die because they lost the vision of innovation. They knew oil was fading away twenty years ago but screw it sell the people gas guzzlers now, hell they are selling, why not. Give the people what they want. And they did. Just like the subprime mortages, give people a house, screw it if they can afford it, just let people trap themselves into debt.
GM is the 486 that never bothered to innovate past oh.. i dunno 1980 maybe? While the Japanese saw the writing on the wall and dived head first into new pioneering fields of innovation America looked like a slow dumb ass once again. Ford and Chrysler much the same really.
But now we have the new government agenda. Its front and center, btw, apparently hybrid cars are pretty important now, and oh btw, oil may be leaving us after all, despite that big boost of nada off offshore oil rigs. Game is up humans, thy oil supply es fading. I find it laughable that now we're finally in tune with the need to find alternate energy. All because of 3 events really.
First the Obama campaign that pushed for change, in general, and the first real prez to speak up about hello america get your head outa your ass on energy.
Two, the raise of oil to $140 a barrel in July of 2008, led to consumers paying $4+ at the pump per gallon. Suddenly SUVs and hummers were no longer in. It was a flash point of reality that was desperately needed. It hit home hard. Hybrids went from green hippie gay cars to those are pretty decent now huh.
Three, the finanical oh my god hello unstable market scene. Still currently in shake down. With markets tumbling, dinos of corporate superior cash flows realizing thier cash flows were based more on funny numbers and funky metrics, well the price of something real set in, sending everything else to the floor.
Once bailout money came to the aid of the financial fakers, the tap was open, now everyone wants, needs, demands a bailout. First big player- the auto industry. Next? Probably the homebuilders, then, the consumer, give me another check and watch me stuff it in my matress.
Now I gotta think about what the future landscape of USA is gonna look like with nearly everything that is huge and whatnot basically owned by the governement. Nationalized life style. Soon new car concepts will be hitting the streets with pork optional accessories. Personally I drive an Obama 282 turbo, my dad drives a Cheney4x4 Legacy truck .
There will be a big backlash against all this gov spending in the biz and financial sector. With a few trillion of tax payer money sloshing around, i'm sure there will be some good scandals to be had. Meanwhile invest in China.
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