Picking on Krugman is typical of the right. But, that’s not exactly what he said. Here’s the context.
https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-internet-quote-2013-12?amp Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 5:12 PM, Bob Bridges <00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Speaking of old predictions: /* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's. -Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize-winning economist in 1998 */ --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 16:58 Sorry, the date has been truncated on the left. That should be 11994. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: 22 February 2024 19:42 The last mainframe will be turned off in 1994 - Gartner Group -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:11 AM A 5-year prediction is generally safe, because in 5 years people will have forgotten the predictions. Who remembers the failed 5-year predictions for, e.g., controlled fusion, human level machine translation? I expect it to eventually happen, but as for when, Hypotheses non fingo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotheses_non_fingo>. On the flip side, hand optimization for pipelined machines is labor intensive and fragile; a compiler with an ARCHLVL parameter is better suited for the job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
