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Was wondering what the automotive industry was like decades ago.
I assume there was some transitions from:
- hobby product
- advances make a semi-comman standard across competitors
- a few dominating companies emerge, like Ford (maybe with including boom and bust periods)
- Tipping point where the old way is replaced. Minimum speeds on roads make Horses illegal.
- REGULATION. (i might be missing a few steps)
My thinking is how we can apply the lessons learned to some of the scaremongering with the big tech companies.
After noticing the headline I Want To Kick The Tech Giants Out Of My Life, says Wikipedia Co-Founder - MSPoweruser
In comparison, the main car companies, need to follow many regulations to 1 supply a car to someone. then 2 that person requires to follow some regulation. (I am so over simplified something here)
Was there a transition period where people were like "I don't want to drive a car made by Ford cause I don't like Ford or any other big company." Except they are much safer products?
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I think with the auto industry you have it somewhat backwards.
Ford, as the dominant company emerges
Maybe some hobbyists
Other companies emerge
Government steps in with regulations.
maze3 wrote: Was there a transition period where people were like "I don't want to drive a car made by Ford cause I don't like Ford or any other big company."
Sure. I want bigger tail fins, bigger engine, bigger back seat. 
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The origin and rapid evolution of the auto industry was as much a disruptive, transformational, series of events as the smelting of metals (iron, bronze) at the end of the neolithic, as the domestication of dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, as large scale irrigation projects for somewhat reliable production of domesticated cereal grains, and, more recently, railroads.
Instead of fantasizing about it, why not read a good book ? The remarkable book "the Prize" by Daniel Yergin [^], which won the Pulitzer Prize, while focused on the oil industry, covers the "automobile age," and its visionaries, tycoons, and oddballs, in wonderful, vivid, detail.
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biscuits and blessings are the host in the sistine?
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Upon which we read math(s) news? (5,6)
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Times tables ?
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Yes! Tuesday is yours.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Blimey - that was partly a guess 
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Shouldn't it be worried about not being able to finish it in its lifetime? 
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Speaking of long-lived...why is Peanuts still being published? Didn't Schultz die like, well over a decade ago?
They still haven't had a single mildly amusing strip. And I don't mean since. I mean ever.
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dandy72 wrote: They still haven't had a single mildly amusing strip. And I don't mean since. I mean ever.
Sacrilege! I grew up on Peanuts. The subtle psychology was much better than any therapist to help me deal with my childhood traumas.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sacrilege! I grew up on Peanuts.
I respect that. Maybe I've had a relatively trauma-less childhood. 
...or never lost a kite to a tree, or had the football removed just as I was about to kick it, or ended up just in my underwear after being hit by a baseball.
I've read a lot of Peanuts back in my day...in fact I remember bringing in the mail from my grandparents' mailbox almost daily (they lived right next door) just so I could read the comics. Peanuts have never been laugh out loud funny to me, but perhaps I was expecting too much.
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Or did you just prove his point ?
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Wow, War and peace has 587,287 words. Its completion may take many generations of peanuts to come.
Note: the number is according to a Google search and I haven't counted the words in the book.
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I thought the key to a long and happy life was avoiding javascript.
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74. Pleasant medium after big fight (4)
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