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A couple of anecdotes from my career based in and around Adelaide :
When I started my career in the late 70's, the city square had a vibrant small industrial base actually making stuff. Need a spring re-tempered? Sure, bring it in.... Southcotts (thankyou) is still going, but now the major industry in in the city square is making cappucinos and lattes.
Later in my career, during the privatisation of ETSA, senior management took away our New Scientist subscription to be replaced by the Fin Review instead, to bring us up to speed on the 'new imperatives'. Fast forward to the Asian Financial crisis that suddenly erupted. The Fin review had half its latest issue (pages & pages) devoted to analysing this new development. So I bent down to the pile of Fin Reviews under the reading desk, and looked through the issues of the previous week.... no sign of it coming ! No predictive value at all ! I could have been equally well informed consulting the horrorscope instead, and : I would have wasted less time !
cheers
Gerry/ Gerhard
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