Comments on: One Singular Sensation http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/ The Catalyst Code Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:52:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Leif Peterson http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7199 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:52:36 +0000 http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7199 Newspapers are a different story because they make all of their income off advertising, and alot of that from classifieds. Everybody looks to the internet for information on buying a new car or renting an apartment. Books don't have that problem. I don't know what the situation is for magazines. But I still buy the magazines I want, while I read the paper online... Printed newspapers are clumsy anyway, so there's no love lost when you don't have to hassle with turning two foot pages. Newspapers are a different story because they make all of their income off advertising, and alot of that from classifieds. Everybody looks to the internet for information on buying a new car or renting an apartment. Books don’t have that problem.

I don’t know what the situation is for magazines. But I still buy the magazines I want, while I read the paper online…

Printed newspapers are clumsy anyway, so there’s no love lost when you don’t have to hassle with turning two foot pages.

]]> by: Leif Peterson http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7197 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:47:26 +0000 http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7197 I have mixed feelings about the kindle. I think it's a really great idea and will eventually take over printed books. But at this point, it's overpriced and everybody knows that these kinds of decisions, for the vast majority of people, come down to economics. What's the kindle cost? 400 bucks? Plus 10 dollars per book download... my whole point is that, right now, you can get that same book in a paperback edition for between 7.95 and 16.95. So if you're looking at the low end of that, you're never going to recoup the cost of the machine. And if you're buying the expensive books, you're looking at buying seventy books before it's cost effective... The ipod really caught on when itunes made it cost effective by making it possible to get the same three songs you would listen to off of an album for 3 dollars instead of buying the CD with 12 more songs you won't listen to, for an extra 12 bucks. So you save the extra cost of the device by not having to spend 300 bucks for 300 songs you don't want, to get the 50 songs you do... On top of that, if you read on the bus or rail-system on the way to work, do you really need to have access to 1500 books at once? You're probably only reading one book at a time anyway. So it's no different to carry around a half-pound book than it is to carry around a quarter-pound computer that's the same volume. I don't know, I just don't think they've hit the mark yet... Now if you could download books to your phone for 15 cents a chapter I think more people would buy into it. Because you can't replicate the page turning excitement of an actual book on a computer anyway. And for my dollar, I'd rather have a hard copy of the magazine or book... If all we have are electronic books, what are we going to put on our bookshelves. I know major media is hyping the kindle a lot. But I just don't see it right now. I have mixed feelings about the kindle. I think it’s a really great idea and will eventually take over printed books. But at this point, it’s overpriced and everybody knows that these kinds of decisions, for the vast majority of people, come down to economics. What’s the kindle cost? 400 bucks? Plus 10 dollars per book download… my whole point is that, right now, you can get that same book in a paperback edition for between 7.95 and 16.95. So if you’re looking at the low end of that, you’re never going to recoup the cost of the machine. And if you’re buying the expensive books, you’re looking at buying seventy books before it’s cost effective…

The ipod really caught on when itunes made it cost effective by making it possible to get the same three songs you would listen to off of an album for 3 dollars instead of buying the CD with 12 more songs you won’t listen to, for an extra 12 bucks. So you save the extra cost of the device by not having to spend 300 bucks for 300 songs you don’t want, to get the 50 songs you do…

On top of that, if you read on the bus or rail-system on the way to work, do you really need to have access to 1500 books at once? You’re probably only reading one book at a time anyway. So it’s no different to carry around a half-pound book than it is to carry around a quarter-pound computer that’s the same volume.

I don’t know, I just don’t think they’ve hit the mark yet… Now if you could download books to your phone for 15 cents a chapter I think more people would buy into it. Because you can’t replicate the page turning excitement of an actual book on a computer anyway.

And for my dollar, I’d rather have a hard copy of the magazine or book… If all we have are electronic books, what are we going to put on our bookshelves.

I know major media is hyping the kindle a lot. But I just don’t see it right now.

]]> by: Trygve Egge http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7186 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:12:37 +0000 http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2009/02/24/one-singular-sensation/#comment-7186 Before singularity there will be a "I've had enough and I'm not going to take it anymore". People will see the necessity for reflection so the brain and body can catch up with the speed the information. It is in that quietude that new ideas blossom. Will it be OM or not even a sound, just the stillness that gives rise to creation? Before singularity there will be a “I’ve had enough and I’m not going to take it anymore”. People will see the necessity for reflection so the brain and body can catch up with the speed the information. It is in that quietude that new ideas blossom. Will it be OM or not even a sound, just the stillness that gives rise to creation?

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