I wish I was still smart enough to have opinions about computer technology trends. I don't even have a cell phone, and if I did who would I call, and if I had someone to call what would we talk about; politics, football?? Heck, I finally got license plates for a truck because the State of Minnesota failed computers 101 and forgot how to do their job anymore. Looks like nuclear war with North Korea, and drug war in Chicago, and who can watch what they call news anymore?? I think the most urgent job is to retrain medical employees for farming. Nobody can afford overgrown health care, and if your aren't sick they have some drugs for you to fix that. Meanwhile wide open Minnesota farmland and farm homes are going to rot for lack of farmers willing to grow good food and good communities. And finally climate change activists remembered agriculture; do a google of "agriculture climate." With quality rural internet and opensuse linux maybe the time to invent computing is nearly over, and the time to use it in new applications in new environments is just begun. Iznogoud wrote: >> Things change though. One day you are employed or in college. The >> next you are laid off or have dropped out of school. Michael Dell dropped >> out of college and still did OK. Someone may not have much interest until >> they need to make a living. >> > Dell was, literaly, one in 7 billion. Read Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" on > some insight on randomness, chance and (unlikely) success. > > For making a living, there are less esoteric ways of doing it, and for that > I direct you to Tim Ferris' "The Four Our Work Week" (I have not read his > latest book). > > For those who try to break in an industry, I recommend "Crossing the Chasm," > which may be of great interest to you Brian, and may help push your product > through. > > On a related note, "The Rebel Sell" (no spelling error) was an amazing book, > written by the critics of also a decent book: "No Logo." > > > OK, back to work. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >