Service Economy

My gawd, the wheel is turning. We are evolving into the Golgafrinchams! What time does the first wave leave?

It used to be in the olden days, that you RENTED a mainframe from IBM and IBM would supply all the technical support and operations staff, i.e., the high priests of the computer room. In other words, IBM would provide a data processing SERVICE. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Yeah righ...

What a load of BS from a new generation executives.

You see, a nail is not gonna get hammered in on its own, nor will an army of consultants telling you at what angle and with what force you shoud hit it. You know what will? A good old-fashioned manufactured hammer in your hand.

Service industry only serves its purpose if it aids manufacturing, everything else is pouring from one bucket into another, inflating the bubble. No wonder US economy is collapsing with this kind of attitude.

He's right

This is what the record and movie companies are struggling so hard with. The grew fat on the spoils of copyright, on selling products. But the rules have changed (and keep changing). The tools for production and dissemination of information entered into the hands of the common man. How can you sell a product when it costs virtually nothing to produce? You can not. The way is to sell a service. A musician could have a live gig, a movie producer could sell the actual production of a movie in itself.

But some large corporations seem to think they have everything to loose on the weakening of "intellectual property", creating some serious roadblocks on the road to tommorrow.