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IT Growth: Exponential No More

Posted by timothy on from the doomsaying-or-duh dept.

BreadMan writes "The Economist has has an article about growth in the IT industry coming off a period of unsustainable growth. Compares IT to growth industries of the past like railroads and automobiles."

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  1. uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean this powerpoint course I just took won't make me a millionaire?

    Why didn't anybody tell me that you actually need some useful skills to be happily employed in this industry?!

  2. No surprise here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People can only view so much porn..

    1. Re:No surprise here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Speak for yourself.

  3. 1 transistor per processor by Hans+Lehmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    According the graph (supplied by Intel), processors back in 1960 had one transistor each. They probably didn't have a very extensive instruction set.

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    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
  4. Re:this is a rehash. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    purabalas?!?

    PARABOLAS.

    I appreciate the humor that this unbelievable misspelling was followed up 2 sentences later with "Not that I wanted to go to college anyway".

    Sure, buddy. You didn't want to.

  5. please correct your post by SHEENmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Sigmoidal" is not present in "Dumb and Dumber's Fifth Grade Word Looker-Upper" and therefore should not be used in your post. "Exponential" does mean "big big" according to the looker-upper, and "journalists" should be replaced with "writer downers."

    The preceding changs will make your post suitable for reading by the 97% of our society. The remain 3%, illiterate and UNIX Wizards, don't buy stuff; therefore they aren't a usefull part of society and can be ignored.

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    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.