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Читаю In Search of Stupidity. Смешная книжка.
'The 1970s had been a gloomy time for U.S. businesses. The Japanese had run American companies out of consumer electronics; Japanese cars lasted 100,000 miles, while American cars started breaking down at 20,000; and as the 1980s began, Japanese companies had just started making memory chips more cheaply than their American counterparts. The Japanese even announced they were starting a "Fifth Generation" project to build software that would make computers very, very smart indeed, leaving the poor old United States with software systems that would be the technological equivalent of Studebakers. [..]
Yes, the United States was doing OK in this new market for little machines called "microcomputers," but the pundits universally agreed that eventually the Japanese were going to move into that industry as well and that would be it for the Americans. Maybe IBM would survive; after all, it did business like the Japanese anyway. For the ambitious young MBA, a start-up position in agribusiness, such as sheepherding, began to look like the fast track to the top.'
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'The 1970s had been a gloomy time for U.S. businesses. The Japanese had run American companies out of consumer electronics; Japanese cars lasted 100,000 miles, while American cars started breaking down at 20,000; and as the 1980s began, Japanese companies had just started making memory chips more cheaply than their American counterparts. The Japanese even announced they were starting a "Fifth Generation" project to build software that would make computers very, very smart indeed, leaving the poor old United States with software systems that would be the technological equivalent of Studebakers. [..]
Yes, the United States was doing OK in this new market for little machines called "microcomputers," but the pundits universally agreed that eventually the Japanese were going to move into that industry as well and that would be it for the Americans. Maybe IBM would survive; after all, it did business like the Japanese anyway. For the ambitious young MBA, a start-up position in agribusiness, such as sheepherding, began to look like the fast track to the top.'
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