A couple of attached examples of developmental timelines, maybe a bit of planned obsolescence thrown in as well. In these examples, time is in years and decades between developments. In our timeline it will days, weeks and months, certainly much more quickly. I think FJ mentioned this morning about the need for speed. I wholeheartedly agree....and at X10.

A bit of a discussion this morning on Silicon vs all III-V. Its a necessity when your planning to disrupt last years model line to have a viable successor. One that won't shake the industry up to a degree where there is loss of jobs and economic regression either within or outside that sphere.

The Duntov Corvette (my husbands favorite car was the "vette") did not get to go to the ZR7 nor the C7, overnight. The recording industry did not morph over night from records to mp3's. The petrochemical industry will not morph overnight from oil to....??. It needs to be a staged almost negligible turn over that considers, employment, infrastructure, tax revenue, quality of lives etc.

So too with our quiet, almost stealth like introduction into the industry. Staged and stepped, with Silicons help in actually eventual rendering of itself obsolete. What better way to disrupt than to not disrupt officially or obviously, better yet "detour" ("hey guys over here") the industry. Like a Pied Piper of POET, eventually all will follow out of Silicon City and down the highway to a radical new future.

I love to read the discussions on the forum, some really cutting edge commentary.

That stands to reason, we are all in a cutting edge investment, that runs on the cutting edge of elapsed time versus time remaining.

1954: Corvette production begins at GM’s St. Louis, Missouri, facility on January 1. Chevrolet expands the exterior color choices to include Pennant Blue, Sportsman Red, and Black. Beige is added as an interior option. The straight-six engine gets bumped to 155 hp. Just 3640 Corvettes are produced by year’s end

1955: The small block Chevy V-8 makes its first appearance between a Corvette’s fiberglass fenders, and a three-speed manual appears as an option. The year closes with the six-cylinder bidding adieu. Production totals 700 units

1956: Factory-installed removable hardtops are offered for the first time, and the exterior gets exposed headlamps, sculpted side coves, and roll-up windows. Seatbelts make the scene as a dealer-installed option, and one-hundred and eleven buyers drop $188.30 on a high-lift cam (order code: RPO #449). Head Corvette engineer (and future legend) Zora Arkus-Duntov tells the brass to go racing, but his pleas for a racing program fall on deaf corporate ears. Two four-barrel carbs enhance the 265-cubic-inch (4.3-liter) V-8, and our own Karl Ludvigsen (back when we were known as Sports Cars Illustrated) deems the ’56 credible: “Without qualification, General Motors is now building a sports car.”

1949

RCA introduces the microgroove 45 rpm, large-hole, 7-inch record and record changer/adaptor.

Ampex introduces its Model 300 professional studio recorder.

1958

The first commercial stereo disk recordings produced by Audio Fidelity.

1975

Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios.

1981

Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc (CD).

1997

DVD videodiscs and players are introduced.

1998

MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear.