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<LI><em>From</em>: Mike Sellers <<A HREF="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</A>></LI>
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At 03:24 PM 1/25/98 PST8PDT, Brandon J. Rickman wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:29:17, Mike Sellers <mike#online-alchemy,com> wrote:
>>At 10:12 PM 1/20/98 PST8PDT, Brandon J. Rickman wrote:
>>True. But those people are the capstone of the customer base, and to a
>>large degree drive it. Those who do not demand the fanciest graphics
>>nevertheless *do* demand what were the fanciest graphics of no more than
>>4-5 years ago. IOW, the demand is not static for the bulk of the
>>population, and it is the early-adopter/neophiles who drive this demand.
>
>For the moment. Andrew Grove (Intel) would have you believe this
>demand will always exist. I don't, but this is getting off topic.
For the moment!? That 'moment' has lasted since at least the late 1960s,
and has (in the various guises of Moore's Law) been remarkably consistent
since then. You may not agree with the way technology (in general,
computers and grahics much more specifically) is affecting our society, but
I think you'd be hard pressed to show that continual increasing and
expanding expectations is some sort of "momentary" fad. Of course, demand
for better graphics may well level off in the future, but not in the next,
say, 20 years, I think.
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Mike Sellers Chief Alchemist -- Online Alchemy mike#online-alchemy,com
"One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others
may despise it, is the invention of good games. And it cannot be done
by men out of touch with their instinctive values." - Carl Jung
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