Re: Art, where's the buzz on nanotech saving America today?



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, BMJ wrote:

Straydog wrote:

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The truth of the matter is that stain resistant pants and rugs are the
main micro-to-nanotech products that's been commercialized and it
hasn't unleashed a tsunami of jobs for the next generation of S&Es as
promised by the spinsters during the IT implosion.


Well, the spinmeisters (the capitalist world's version of the communist world's "propaganda ministers") all dish this crap out in the name of making money by convincing underlings that they need some new damned thing more than they need to save their money. Whatever is being made, its going to be made over in China, etc.

Here's something you'll like, Art. I heard on the BBC World Service this morning that a cellphone manufacturer is going to make its product more "recyclable". The case is going to be made from a biodegradable plastic and will contain a sunflower seed. The idea is that, rather than chucking the phone into the dustbin, someone merely "plants" it in the ground. No mention of what's going to happen to the electronic bits, though.

Sounds like an April 1 announcement...but...maybe someday.....????

What these guys don't tell us
is what is going to happen maybe in 10-20 years when Chinese factories are all reved-up and productivity is so high that they are laying off Chinese factory workers as fast, then, as we are now, here in the West.

Just like what's happening in the Mexican states along its northern border. Remember how, courtesy of the original Free Trade Agreement and then NAFTA, how factories began springing up there some twenty years ago? Many of them are being shut down, dismantled, and shipped overseas with the people who worked there being made redundant.

Yep, I heard of some old steel plant in Germany that happened to. The whole plant was taken appart, put into containers, and shipped to China.!!!


All that iPod crap is being made somewhere over in Asia, not by Apple. They just come up with the specs and rake in the net profits.

That's hardly new. VCRs, for example, were being produced in Asia twenty years ago and sold in North America with some other company's insignia slapped on it.

Yep, I'm seeing them in Kmarts and Walmarts. Old US brand name, slapped on boxes and little print "Made in China"


The other iPod like gadgets are simply the next generation of a similar
line of products but with cuter ads.


Well, its obvious that "smaller" will get people to buy the new thing, and "cheaper" will get other people to buy the new thing. Will any of them last more than, say, five years?

It's all in the marketing. Years ago, it was flashy colours or some new style. Making things smaller and selling thm on that basis is more of the same.

Hah.


I think that nano's a dud and the RE bubble et al has numbed people's
mind as to the future of our economy as being one asset bubble to
another. I believe we really are seeing the end of days.


Humpf...premature wishful thinking. I wish you are right, but I think you're wrong. Weve got all this AADHD and it needs some new thing to come out every 6 months -year or it gets bored and we have post X,Y gen blues because there is not some new Jack-in-the-Box to "entertain" everyone. Maybe the drug companies will come up with a new "soma" tablet (Brave New World).

I go to my apartment complex's weight room three times a week. I bring along a portable stereo because I like to listen to Radio Two's early morning classical music program while I have my workout and the place has only a TV.

Whenever some young kid comes along, he or she almost always has either a portable CD player or an iPod-like device with them, often played loud enough that I can hear it from a few paces away. Those who don't usually just grit their teeth as I listen to my Mozart or Bach until I leave, whereupon someone switches on the TV in order to watch this country's counterpart to MTV.

Take you big HIFI amp (50-100 watts) and big room speakers on a two wheel cart and blow them away with some Baroque trumpet music (Stozel's Concerto Grosso for 16 trumpets, 8 horns, 32 bassoons, and 24 clavicords, etc.)!


I'm waiting ....oooops...its already here. I was going to say "Borg implant jewelry" but I just realized that the "body piercing generation already latched onto that theme. Rings of metal into the flesh: just think, no batteries, no glitches, no spyware, no viruses, etc. !!!!

Who knows what's in that tattooing dye, eh?

The kids don't care. It's "in".





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