what's hard today is temporary
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When you're building for the future, you can't afford to wait. Lessons from overpriced LCD screens in the early 2000s.TRANSCRIPT
What’s Hard Today is Temporary.
There was a time…
When flat panel displays were expensive.
Like serious cash money.
Like serious cash money.“Once priced at $20,000 and up, more and more superlarge, 40-inch-plus
plasma displays are dipping below the $10,000 mark.” - CNN, 2001
A decade later…
The concern shifted to screens becoming too cheap to turn a profit.
Prices have continued to drop.
Prices have continued to drop.
“The price of LCD panels fell by 80% between 2004 and
2008, while the manufacturing costs declined by 50%”
- The Economist, 2012
Technology has a way of getting cheaper over time.
What’s expensive now won’t stay that way for long.
There are many reasons why technology doesn’t take off…
There are many reasons why technology doesn’t take off…
!
…but the cost of building shouldn’t be one of them.
Tools like…
Tools like…
Raspberry Pi…
Tools like…
Raspberry Pi…
help develop apps…
where a digital/physical converter are needed…
Tools like…
Raspberry Pi…
help develop apps…
Offices rely on iPads mounted to a wall to manage a conference room.
This.
Upcoming technology can (and will) do it better.
The right software has the ability to replace most hardware in the room.
What’s hard and expensive today is a temporary condition.
If everything was too cheap to matter, what would be worth
having?
