From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:26:27 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:16:56 -0500

 > sgs at aginc.net 04/04/02 04:17PM
 >
 >"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
 >
 >> I'm utterly baffled by Microsoft's success.  Back in the late 70s I
 >> wrongly predicted that the company had no future.
 >
 >The name of the game is Marketing.  Microsoft and Bill Gates are
 >probably the best marketers in history.
 >
 >Our current time will probably not be known as the "age of computers"
 >any more than we refer to post- Gutenberg Europe as "the age of movable
 >type".  Computers are already starting to fade into the background in
 >kitchen appliances, TVs, etc.
 >
 >Rather, we'll be known as "the age of marketing".  The symbol that we'll
 >leave the future is the Pet Rock.

Nah. . . the Chia Pet . . .

mjw

The chia pet.

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