X-Message-Number: 22011 From: "michaelprice" <> References: <> Subject: Cost of IT Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:14:27 +0100 Mark Plus claims: > Basically Simon's book makes all sorts of naive, unbounded > extrapolations like this. His "methodology" applied to the growth > of the Internet based on mid-1990's data would have led to the > prediction that 1000% of the world's population, or some > comparably nonsensical figure, would be online by now. Wrong, Julian Simon claims that the *cost* of IT/internet services will continue falling. He's an economist, remember? And guess what? The cost of IT has continued to fall, which is why we're able to have this discussion. Have a look at his reviw of the 20th century: www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa364.pdf Cheers, Michael C Price ---------------------------------------- http://mcp.longevity-report.com http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22011