tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post2069877572735403336..comments2024-03-26T19:46:33.565-07:00Comments on Random Walks: 2013 PrognosticationsJohn Kurmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-60413534730662965952013-01-03T11:47:48.023-08:002013-01-03T11:47:48.023-08:00It's a mystery why so many journalist are dumb...It's a mystery why so many journalist are dumb. Strike that. Make that TV newscasters. Not all journalists are dumb, but pretty much all TV anchors are. I guess you don't have to be smart if you are pretty. In any case, I left out an important part of the developing world's leveraged boom: the shock of the old. A lot of the devices to be used are technological chimerae, hybrids of technologies ranging from 21st Cen. to, hell, mesolithic times. Take the gravity light, a LED run on grandfather clock weights as just one example. This isn't dandification at work. (Dandification is the market luxury repurposing of a product or technology on the downside of its saturation curve, like LPS and and record players, or buggie whips, or flint-knapping kits for stone handaxes). This is smart, cheap, fast exploitation of all the cool gadgets that ever existed bumping along the lower edge of optimization, and I want to see lots, lots more of this. John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-91346366101711665782013-01-03T07:04:33.175-08:002013-01-03T07:04:33.175-08:00I hope you are right. But we need to get a whole ...I hope you are right. But we need to get a whole new set of talking heads and newcasters. Even when they are reporting something good, they have to put a negative spin on it. let's just get rid of the fear factor.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.com