True, although I for one haven't bought a Kindle yet. Am I under the wrong impression that all the books I buy for the kindle are tied to the Kindle/Amazon? Yes, I buy a lot of books, and actually I wouldn't mind freeing shelf space by going digital. But if I buy a book, I also want to own it. I don't want to pay the full price of a book just for the right to read it for a while (the right to read it forever would be acceptable - I am not into physical ownership as such). (I don't want to buy the electronic readers from Amazon for the rest of my life, either). I am also not interested in Amazon recording my reading speed, bookmarks and notes (I seem to remember that they do that, or at least offer it as a service).
I do hope that a more acceptable business model will eventually emerge, so I agree that books are probably quite finished.
I have to think that this article is a joke for anyone of above-average intelligence who is over the age of 35. How could you look at the economy over the last 9 years and not see a disaster in the making? Wasn't the real estate bubble clear to you? Wasn't the potemkin profit of the financial industry obvious? Didn't the self-destructive greed of conservatives scream at you that this situation could not be maintained?
But forget all that. Correct predictions about the future are coincidences, more often than not.
What about your job history? How many years have you worked in a single company? How many times have you seen corporations adopt unstable or simply idiotic business models? (If you're a programmer like me, how many code bases have you seen that had evolved to the point of unmaintainability?) And most of all, how many layoffs have you personally experienced?
I haven't been optimistic about the job market since the IT bubble burst. I've gone through layoff after layoff, and fled from one apparently stable (but failing) company to another. Every meeting now seems to me like a potential announcement of disaster. Every paycheck seems like my last.
Will positive thinking kill your career? Obviously, if you're naive enough to have ever adopted it.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadI do hope that a more acceptable business model will eventually emerge, so I agree that books are probably quite finished.
But forget all that. Correct predictions about the future are coincidences, more often than not.
What about your job history? How many years have you worked in a single company? How many times have you seen corporations adopt unstable or simply idiotic business models? (If you're a programmer like me, how many code bases have you seen that had evolved to the point of unmaintainability?) And most of all, how many layoffs have you personally experienced?
I haven't been optimistic about the job market since the IT bubble burst. I've gone through layoff after layoff, and fled from one apparently stable (but failing) company to another. Every meeting now seems to me like a potential announcement of disaster. Every paycheck seems like my last.
Will positive thinking kill your career? Obviously, if you're naive enough to have ever adopted it.