Mohtalim

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magaz ... times&_r=1

[T]he coolest, young engineers ignore opportunities in less-sexy areas of tech like semiconductors...

Hey, now!

I hate to tell you this, but you're not young anymore.

Pity the poor Morlock working on chips twice as fast as the old ones.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a- ... 0-to-2100/

On Coasean growth, and the fall of the corporation.

Ronald Coase won a Nobel in economics for the observation that organizations are formed when intra-organization coordination costs are lower than external coordination costs. The corollary here is that as e-commerce cuts external coordination costs, that it decreases the need to be associated with a firm.

I think this is basically incorrect, but I can't identify why yet, which is worrying.

Anyway, it is very much of a piece with the observations about sexy cool companies not actually making things.