Joel Orr's World

From the blog of Ralph Grabowski:

I spoke in front of the Vancouver AutoCAD user group last night on the subject of "The Future of CAD." One woman came up to me afterwards to complain, "I thought you were going to talk about which buttons to push. That's the only reason I came."

Some of the things I did talk about:To better understand what might happen in the future, it is important to know the past. This helps us decode what is happening, and what is likely to happen next, based on common human reactions. For example, if a software vendor switches from selling to the masses to selling vertically or repackaging the product as an API, we know the product is probably failing. Same if the price goes from $199 to $99 to $49 to free....

There is little innovation going on in the CAD world.

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