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From: "michaelprice" <>
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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
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