This is incredible…Did You Know?

[Bob Zelin]

oh big deal –
from the original article –
https://books.google.com/books?id=JMTnTBmt7F0C&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=price+of+Ampex+2%22+VTR&source=bl&ots=T6XFcQljE_&sig=W7qxTnxcno-XHoiFJBoP81Yzajw&hl=en&ei=xIZnStHIGMe_tgeQ0fn-Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8

the CMX-600 editing system cost $500,000 in 1972. Could you please explain how I can make this much money in 2009 ?

In 1973, the networks were using the Norelco PCP-90 portable cameras at $180,000 each. Can you please tell me how to make this much money today in 2009 ?

from before I was in the business –
Ampex AVR-3 (2-Inch Quad)

“Super-good, outrageously expensive, and mammoth in size, a quad VTR generally is considered the best video recording and playback machine money can buy. An Ampex AV R -3 will run about $250,000 for a fully-loaded, signal-processed and image-enhanced machine.”

How can your advertisers charge $250,000 for any product, when this was the price in the 1960’s ?

from Wiekepedia –
(In 1956, one reel of tape cost $300, equivalent to $2,000 in 2000, and the recorders cost about $75,000 to $100,000, about a half a million dollars today.)

How do I charge this amount of money today ? Isn’t this 2009 ?

Bob Zelin

[Mike Cohen]

Nice graphics.
So I guess this means that computers are taking over in 2049. I’ll be 77 so a computer that can cook, clean and do my taxes would be welcome.

Comparing the rate of saturation of internet devices vs tv or radio is not logical, because times have changed. My grandparents envied their relatives who had a tv, but grandpa made like $15 a week in 1945. $15 in 1945 = $310 in today’s dollars. So on $1200/month can one afford the 2009 equivalent of a shiny new RCA television, such as a 42″ LCD? Probably not.

What is the point of all this information? Are we supposed to be scared that the rest of the world is growing bigger than the little old USA? Well, since this is the COW, we are the world, so this is expected. Do not fear the future.

However as Bob has pointed out, how do we make money with the world changing at this high rate of speed? This is the big question indeed.

Mike Cohen

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Mike Cohen] “What is the point of all this information? Are we supposed to be scared that the rest of the world is growing bigger than the little old USA? Do not fear the future.”

I didn’t post it to strike fear in people’s minds, I posted it because those that think we are having a “recession” and that things are going to get back to normal anytime soon, are simply uninformed. This is a major redistributing of wealth, power and resources around the world — and the country that once accounted for 15% of the world’s population and that once enjoyed 40% of the world’s resources for about a 100 years or so, is not going to be able do it over the next 100 years. Hard fact: They won’t get to do it another 10 years.

I posted this because some people want to live in these times as if in a few months, things will revert back to the Keynesian cycles of the past. They’re not. When Alan Greenspan (former head of the Federal Reserve) resigned, he told Congress that he was out of touch with the present world of economics and that the “enlightened self interest” of capitalistic laissez faire and the usual capitalistic economic patterns just didn’t work anymore. He coined the term, “The Age of Turbulence.” And he is one of the smartest men in America.

We are in a world of heightened competition and just as areas of the United States grew as economic centers due to their proximity to resources, etc. — such as the steel belt growing near the coal reserves and the midwest breweries growing there because of their proximity to the grain belt, etc. — the future is going to be one wherein certain countries are going to be strong in certain industries due to the human resources and dispositions of the people. It is yet to be determined where many of the players will stand.

Fear is not why I posted it.

Knowledge is power — especially in an information age.

Bob Dylan was right, the times they are a’ changin’ — and faster than ever.

Back in 1979, I read Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock. It rocked my thinking and much of what I have done over the last 30 years or so is directly due to reading it. Thank you, Mr. Toffler, I am forever indebted to you. Future Shock gave me some ideas about the world to come that I have used to do many of the things that I have done over the years.

But there are two books I have been reading that are up-to-the-minute reports of what is happening right now, today, in the world. Those that understand what is in them, will have a leg up on the competition — and I mean that seriously. (In case you don’t know the origin of the term, to get a leg up on the competition — it comes from a dog on a fire hydrant.)

The two greatest books I have read in the past decade are: “The World Is Flat” by Thomas Friedman, and “Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence” by Philip Kotler. They should be required reading for all kids in early to mid high school to get their attention on more than their iPod — at least the smart ones that will seek the panoramic mental tools that will enable their success.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Trent Whittington]

Its just a matter of time until the robots take over.

Trent Whittington – Currently studying Associate Degree in Digital Television

http://www.facebook.com/trentwhittington

[Ron Lindeboom]

I think I’ll have to lay off this forum for a while. I used to like to come here for intelligent, thought provoking discussion. Sheesh.

Ron Lindeboom

[Mike Cohen]

Ron – I was commenting on the video, not your reason for posting it.
Trent – You’re right – It is only a matter of time before robots take over. All those closed auto factories are full of robots. A bored robot is a potential enemy.
If you are reading this, you are the resistance.
This is John Connor.

[Mark Suszko]

I can’t be everywhere ALL the time, Ron:-)

I’ve seen this presentation before and forwarded it to my school’s principal. She said it gave her nightmares.

If you liked Toffler, the fiction book “Shockwave Rider” by John Brunner may appeal to you. Some of the technical details are obsolete, much of the human insight in it is not.

To me, this turbulence presents many challenges, but also opportunities to find or create new markets and new ways to make a living. The problem I find is in getting the attention of people around me to consider these things seriously. The usual attitude is that all this is happening somewhere far off and has no immediate impact on what goes on locally, so it can be ignored. This is incredibly dangerous thinking. The people who survive and thrive are the ones that look far ahead and plan for what’s coming before it hits locally.

[Simon Roughan]

Youre all thinking “Terminator”.
Im thinking “Cherry 2000”.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Simon Roughan] “You’re all thinking “Terminator”. I’m thinking “Cherry 2000″.”

I am thinking neither.

I am thinking, “What can I do to compete with robots?”

;o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Chris Blair]

This probably isn’t a thought-provoking insight regarding this thread, but we had a jib shoot a while back at a large aluminum manufacturing facility and during the shoot a robot on the manufacturing floor ran amok, slammed into the jib arm and knocked it over. Luckily, the camera wasn’t on it and it was only built to one the shorter lengths.

The robots were supposed to be able to sense when they were about to run into something and automatically stop.

This plant literally had robots that roamed the floor doing all sorts of things that 5 years ago humans did. It was both surreal and a little comic.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com