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Re: Are you paying attention, LEGO?
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 03:57:06 GMT
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Hi Dave,
I remember reading an article about Dell in the 80s, and it was that reporter
that cited Toffler as the visionary on customization of mass production. I don't
recall Toffler even mentioning computers. And the spoon example is telling--the
spoons differ in trivial, non-essential ways, providing the illusion of
craftsmanship. Next, we all were going to have more leisure time. A lot of the
leisure activities he described in "The Third Wave" (bear with me, I read it in
1988) were similarly trivial, with random colored lights and random sounds. I
think of the discoes in Buck Rogers, and the Star Trek Laxwanna Troi type of
spontaneity as what Toffler predicted. (So, he predicted what the future would
be like on TV.) Like you said, a telling record of his own moment in time.
-Erik
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| (...) Heh! That's a good point about free time. Every week there are reports about the rising trend of mandatory overtime on Dateline, 20/20, and the like. I'll come clean as well--I haven't read Toffler in a few years either. I remember, though, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Toffler's example was a little different from the Dell incarnation, though, and not just in the nature of the product. The manufacturing of spoons piece-by-piece to be different from one's neighbors entails a manipulation of each item in (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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