not sure if the chaps who are searching for map,

Search request: GM manufactoring automation protocol | referrers

will be satisfied to find this. the gm heritage site at least promises to offer more, if you contact them.

anyhow, i enjoyed to recall the old findings, especially strange hugo gernsback and his vision for what we call, by now "e-health". published 1963, thought of by gernsback, date not identified.


good to find out erbzine is not a dead link by now.

“The canvas keeps getting bigger, and ideas are getting smaller,” he told the gaming blog Gamasutra in 2005. “There are so many sequels, and so few new ideas.” | quoted by nyt

first you read it in internal reports, than you here it whispered in the halls (i heard it first game starts), than you can hear it on stage at conferences and soon you will read it in reports. when a phrase finally finds its way into proposals, you can't here it any longer. as it is what it is: yet another phrase which got tracked down and looses its purpose, if it had any first. igual. copy and paste starts as well as reverse engineering. if you are lucky you find some creative twist to it that makes you laugh.

"out of the box thinking" is a recent and good example of this game; in policy settings, though.

still some marketing and business strategists preach: repeat your message. well, everything streamlined can lead to: one size fits all, and that actually is - to put it midly - impolite when you try it on people and doesn't work either when it comes to machines.