Nope. But I've had plenty of close calls. Thought you might appreciate this.
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Norwegian.
English.
Posted on 11/16/2011 1:59:07 AM PST by WesternCulture
Walter Isaacsson has, recently, completed a great work on Steve Jobs.
My relatives will probably force me to read it (even though Isaacson was the former head of CNN, they're Conservatives and I'm a 42 year old with a will of my own) but prefer his magnificent study of Einstein as far books go.
Anyhow, what do people actually understand about how and in what ways the IT sector of the economy has transformed all of our lives?
Being Swedish, I wish to draw attention to what a marvelous revolution a certain poor peasant boy from the region of Värmland once initiated.
His last name was Ericsson.
Why did mobile telecommunication explode in Scandinavia already in the late 1980's (when most other people were using silly pagers), howcome Nordic governments were so daring in building/promoting real mobile infrastructure back then and why have California and Japan lost so much ground to companies like Ericsson and Nokia (and why couldn't Skype have been invented in, say, Osaka?)
You can't just all blame it on Bush..
(Nice link below)
Indeed. Where would electronics be today had Lee de Forest not invented the vacuum tube?
Its the Internet...created by US Miltary
Correction:
It's the Internet . . . created by US Military Algore!
>> why couldn’t Skype have been invented in, say, Osaka? <<
I can’t answer your question. But in any case, Skype was invented in the non-Nordic country of Estonia.
(Estonia has wanted to join the Nordic Council for many years. But the Nordics simply won’t accept them.)
>> Motorola <<
Not to denigrate Motorola’s admirable business successes, but the firm would have been unable to develop its cellular phone offerings and its various solid-state products without the pioneering, breakthrough work of AT&T’s Bell Labs.
That is, not only did Bell Labs lead the way in developing the transistor, but they also came up with the whole concept of cellular phone technology. The latter development occurred something like 20 years before the always-slowpoke FCC finally got around to letting various firms (like Motorola) implement cellular phone networks.
Therefore, I gotta say that AT&T should rank much higher on the honor roll than “copycats” like Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, GTE, etc.
At this point I would have to nominate Ford, Boeing, and IBM.
“Ford, Boeing, and IBM”
- I said the 21st century.
If you want to talk about the promising future of some Swedish company, feel free, but these are the ones that shaped the lifestyle of the 21st century by their actions in the 20th.
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