So much for the meme that their workforce is unique and posses skills found nowhere else. Webcam videos from Wuhan and other cities paint a different picture of China than these press releases.
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I doubt it. I’m not convinced the US is capable of implementing the kind of lock down required to limit the spread of this disease.
So you really think current generations of people living (say under 50) have never had parents, grand parents or great grand parents live through:
WW1
WW2
Small Pocks
Spanish Flu
SARS
The Stock Market Crash of 1930 ! (I still recall seeing classroom videos of once wealthy stock brokers or insurers self jumping from high storey skyscrapers to their deaths in an attempt to guarantee their families money to survive the next 6-10yrs from starvation).
Let's not mention huge government provisions and 4hr long lineups for rations at Food Banks! Also ... wonder why Corn was used in so many of our food? Yeah you can thank 1930/WW1 and WW2.
I'm not saying COVID-19 isn't a real situation to be scared or something we'll all be seeing the horrors of for years to come ... I'm just saying we've got a lot of history in N.America for many generations.
Back on topic:
I think the robotics industry will have a serious boom along with Apple, Samsung, Sony, Huwaei and other phone/tablet engineers having designed devices that can be made from CAD designs to finished products without the need for human assembly. Ribbon cables will probably be a thing of the past by end of 2020 in smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Heck even components for Starliner and other space bound aircraft will do away with connection cables and ribbons.
You’re joking right? You know how many people have lost their jobs/businesses or WILL lose their job/business?
You see all of the sporting events and music festivals canceled? Things are gonna have to be rescheduled, people are gonna be looking for work. The stock market won’t return to glory by June either.
This pandemic is going to have effects that probably go into next year.
We might not be locked down/ quarantined come June, but things for sure won’t be normal.
How many Americans in general remember its history?
How many Americans still have (great) grandparents who are still alive? For those that do, how many listen to their stories about how life was like in the past?
Things like WWI/WWII is nothing but history to the younger people <50-ish yrs old.
Recalling seeing or hearing history is Much different than experiencing life events directly when and as it happens.
Met many elderly folk who grew up in the Depression era when they were kids. Despite their stories, it's hard to fully comprehend what is was like living at that time.
The biggest mistake people do is using their current time judgement on past history. Life was much different back then, considering how fast technology has changed life within the past 20-30 years.
It's harder to realize that many people back then in early/mid 20th century were also immigrants, many of their descendants are Americans with No clue what life was like for their (great) grandparents as each person experiences life differently.
No and stop being such a drama queen...
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No you’re wrong. You’d be surprised at how the humans quickly forget
Agreed. We will be prepared. Hundreds of millions of global workers and students will now have iPad pros for working at home
very well stated ...
Things like WWI/WWII is nothing but history to the younger people <50-ish yrs old.
> myself included ... but ...
Recalling seeing or hearing history is Much different than experiencing life events directly when and as it happens.
> possibly ... yet with K12 schools, at least in N.America and in Germany ... every Remembrance Day and history classes it's made VERY evident just how ****** this world can get and has gotten to so it'll NEVER be forgotten. I presume 911 in the USA is quite close to <50yr old citizens having great/grandparents that recall Pearl Harbor (after all Paul Walker's grandfather died in that event, so there is some history and pain remembered for those within my generation <50yrs old).
Met many elderly folk who grew up in the Depression era when they were kids. Despite their stories, it's hard to fully comprehend what is was like living at that time.
> I myself met very many elderly folk that grew up in the Depression era as children. Their stories is hard to fully grasp just how much of the world changed in their lifetimes:
Electricity, kerosene bulbs to light bulbs, horses and stagecoaches to electric and gasoline cars, houses to buildings to skyscrapers, traffic lights, telephone, computers, internet, highways, cities over 1 million to 10 million people, cruise ships, airplanes (propeller to jet), bombs, Atom Bomb, aircraft carriers, Disney Land .... heck even seeing King Kong get re-iterated 4 times (and we complain about reruns or remakes lol).
You're very true that each person sees life very differently than the last generation I think we forget that large and healthy families keep records of their past. I love good change and looking forward to the future just as much as any bright eyed child of 7yrs old today ... yet I think we're both in different lenses correct on our take here
Thanks much appreciated.
Buying a new iPhone 2020, no thanks.
My money is staying in my pocket, wages already cut to save my 28 year Business, my house bills and food are more important.
But good luck Apple, if people are still going to pay high prices for your phones.
Personally l think going through this current period we will be more aware of not paying through the nose for anything in the future.
My money is staying in my pocket, wages already cut to save my 28 year Business, my house bills and food are more important.
But good luck Apple, if people are still going to pay high prices for your phones.
Personally l think going through this current period we will be more aware of not paying through the nose for anything in the future.