[PLUG-TALK] U.S. manufactured motherboards ... and growth

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 10:22:40AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> There's far too much focus on the saving power mantra.  People don't realize
> we are 10, maybe max 20 years away from cheap photovoltaics.
> 
> A generation from now people will be wondering why our generation was so
> hyper focused on "green power"  The only thing people will care about for
> power consumption is handheld mobile.

Interesting planet you live on, Ted.  Yes, almost everyone
will be using a handheld mobile 24x7, conspiracy nonsense
whispered into their earbuds ... while they careen down
residential streets at 50 mph in their 700 horsepower
(50 kilowatt) SUVs.  Electric SUVs, charged by coal power
generated out in flyover territory.  Solar photovoltaics
won't charge the SUVs at night, but they will keep the
decorative windmills spinning when there is no wind.
Thems the watts what worry me.

Demonstrating that most people don't care, and that some
people play the rest in a board game that NOBODY really
understands.  Vast evil corporate conspiracies would be
more intelligent than the frantic goal-free crank-yanking
that almost everyone seems to be doing.  Sadly, it is
sleep-walking all the way up to (and including) the
C-suite. 

As Gertrude Stein said, "there is no there there".

I recently finished reading "Disconnected America: The
Consequences of Mass Media in a Narcissistic World" by
Ed Shane.  Published in 2001, and sitting on a shelf in
the PSU library ever since.  Shane claimed that laptop
screens narrow our thinking in time and breadth.  He
died in 2015.  I can guess his opinion of handhelds;
perhaps that's what killed him.

Friends discuss the eventual replacement of the "tweet"
by the one-bit "YO!".  That frees more bandwidth for
automated surveillance.

Yes Ted, I can "out-cynical" you.  However, I seem to be
happier when I'm solving problems rather than kvetching
about them.  Next problem, migrating a heap of content
from one-man-show MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki.  Eventually,
that one man will get run over by an SUV, by which time
I may be too aged and gorked to migrate anything.

Curmudgeonly yours;
Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com