{"id":6098,"date":"2012-02-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:01","slug":"there_is_no_doubt_that_many_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/there_is_no_doubt_that_many_pa\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no doubt that many past purchases&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;of computer systems were bungled, mismanaged, and squandered.<\/strong> Last year 8,000 mainframe computers&#8211;computers with the power of a Unix box and the price of a large building&#8211;were sold to customers imprisoned by legacy systems. IBM alone sold $5 billion worth of mainframes in 1997. Those billions don&#8217;t help the efficiency ratings. The year 2000 fiasco is a world-scale screwup that also saps the payoff from information technology. But according to economic historian Paul David, <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">it took the smokestack economy 40 years to figure out how to reconfigure their factories to take advantage of the electric motor<\/span>, invented in 1881; for the first decade of the changeover productivity actually decreased. David likes to quip that &#8220;In 1900 contemporaries might well have said that the electric dynamos were to be seen &#8216;everywhere but in the economic statistics.&#8217; &#8221; And <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">the switch to electric motors was simple compared to the changes required by network technology<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of computer systems were bungled, mismanaged, and squandered. Last year 8,000 mainframe computers&#8211;computers with the power of a Unix box and the price of a large building&#8211;were sold to customers imprisoned by legacy systems. IBM alone sold $5 billion worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/there_is_no_doubt_that_many_pa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}