I once met a friend of my parents, old, and he works in a senior position in IBM, somewhere quite high up there.

We were having general conversation about what the future computers would look like, and he told us about a conspiracy that is already going on.

He said about how IBM and Windows are actually connected, and to the outside world what seems like competition between the two PC giants, underneath the camouflage is actually Windows and IBM sharing the profit together as monopolies.

The current technology of computer are already developed so advance beyond our imagination for the next 20 years, voice recongnition, AI, RAM 10 times greater than the ones we have now, speed 5 times faster than the current Pentium, you name it.

But the cooperations are concealing this, and would only release an improvement of generation of PCs over the previous one slowly, so that they would make the most profit over each generation.

If this is true i think it is a very sinister and evil thing to do. Imagine how standard of living for humans would enhance with those current existing highly advance computers.

But then that old man may just be bluffing, this theory sounds like too far fetched, but on the contray it also makes perfect sense for such a conspiracy to exist......



[edit on 27-12-2005 by EarthUnificationFrontier]

I actually agree with the old fella there. In actuality, technology being held from the public is at least 30 years in advance and the theory to profit the most is spot on.

Unfortunately, the more control that the 'secret' govt has by slowly releasing such products, not only does it give more profit, but it gives more power and control over those who use them. What would happen if a product thats 30 years in advance was released. Too many things would happen at once, new discoveries in science, new discoveries in medicine, new discoveries in space, too much overflow of information would create panic and chaos, and thus the control aspect.

Kind Regards
Merger

If this were true...

Why did IBM develop OS/2 as a "Windows Killer"?

Why did IBM buy Lotus to compete with Microsoft?

Why does IBM try to promote DB2 as a SQL Server "killer"?

Why did IBM sell-off it's personal computer division?

Why don't the audiors know of secret profit-sharing between IBM and Microsoft?

Why did IBM suffer financially in the late 1980's and early-to-mid 1990's?

Sounds like good business sense to me.

Technology is always way ahead of consumer goods - it's all about economies of scale - the cheaper items are to manufacture and distribute, the cheaper they are to sell - the bigger the user-base gets.

As a technology becomes more wide-spread, a better model, or replacement is produced in order to keep revenue coming in - When products first appear, they are expensive and new to the market, as parts become cheaper, the product becomes cheaper and a wider userbase is established........ and so on, and so on.

I've no doubt big businesses collude to strengthen their monopolies in their respective markets.

It's where we are today isn't it, with concerns to business and consumer goods - Everyone is now a consumer from very early childhood onwards.