> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> Is there any example of succesful, government-made processor?.
>> is there any semiconductor firm operating as cooperative?
>> why?
>>
>
> Let's turn the question around: has any semiconductor firm successfully
> developed a product without relying on the knowledge generated by decades of
> government funded research on electronics and computer technology?
>
> Miles
>
Let's turn it again... aren't the following among the primary driving forces behind the need for ever-greater computer speed and capacity 1) the staggeringly bloated size of the dominant operating system, 2) the ridiculously fractured niches of proprietary software, 3) the hegemony of the freestanding (rather than cooperatively networked) home/laptop computer and 4) our society's capital-driven incapacity to develop or satisfy our own video, musical, sexual, and friend-ly needs within our own immediate, uncommodified relationships?
Just like any other commodity, ever-faster processor speeds and storage capacities produce their own set of new needs, eh? and the cycle continues, largely w/o our conscious or intentional, much less democratic bidding...