Why would anyone build beepers if there are no mobile phones? That’s an entire wireless infrastructure that doesn’t need to be created or maintained. Beepers were the impetus for early wireless repeaters and signal towers. Phones created the data and load bearing standards but the hardware was built for the devices before phones.
In a planned economy the onus is on the person to be where they need to make or receive a call. Like the 70s and rotary phones. “Plan your day around what the day has planned for you” is what one of the most annoying teachers I’ve ever had said and it’s the perfect model for blaming the individual for problems outside their control. And that’s why central planners will use it to deflect from criticism.
Look at the process nodes involved and their cost to create the fabs. Late 1990’s CMOS was still in the hundreds of millions for a fab node and the surrounding technology was many many orders of magnitude cheaper than what it takes to make the phones of today. People just do not realize how fabs are the single most expensive endeavor is all of human history. This is absolutely what has shaped the world from 1960 to today. Prior economies were driven by militaries as their principal means of economic growth. The exponential growth of silicon has been that principal driver since the 1980s when it surpassed military spending.
I’ve done this job of Buying for a commercial retail chain. I was the bureaucracy like system. I was deeply conservative. People like that are never willing to stand in the present and spend two orders of magnitude more to take the next step blindly into the future at the behest of a few brilliant people. Their rivals will tear them apart without insulation between such decisions and politics.
So you still get to the stage where silicon fabs are as big as other large industries in an economy, but they never eclipse all other industries and even militaries.
I play in the biggest of pictures. In that picture, you have beepers at best.
Why would anyone build beepers if there are no mobile phones? That’s an entire wireless infrastructure that doesn’t need to be created or maintained. Beepers were the impetus for early wireless repeaters and signal towers. Phones created the data and load bearing standards but the hardware was built for the devices before phones.
In a planned economy the onus is on the person to be where they need to make or receive a call. Like the 70s and rotary phones. “Plan your day around what the day has planned for you” is what one of the most annoying teachers I’ve ever had said and it’s the perfect model for blaming the individual for problems outside their control. And that’s why central planners will use it to deflect from criticism.
Look at the process nodes involved and their cost to create the fabs. Late 1990’s CMOS was still in the hundreds of millions for a fab node and the surrounding technology was many many orders of magnitude cheaper than what it takes to make the phones of today. People just do not realize how fabs are the single most expensive endeavor is all of human history. This is absolutely what has shaped the world from 1960 to today. Prior economies were driven by militaries as their principal means of economic growth. The exponential growth of silicon has been that principal driver since the 1980s when it surpassed military spending.
I’ve done this job of Buying for a commercial retail chain. I was the bureaucracy like system. I was deeply conservative. People like that are never willing to stand in the present and spend two orders of magnitude more to take the next step blindly into the future at the behest of a few brilliant people. Their rivals will tear them apart without insulation between such decisions and politics.
So you still get to the stage where silicon fabs are as big as other large industries in an economy, but they never eclipse all other industries and even militaries.
I play in the biggest of pictures. In that picture, you have beepers at best.