Exhibit A: Buggy Whips




Exhibit B: Animal Skin Clothes

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It's a renewable resource.

I don't think that predictability denies tragedy-- see the British Wreckers reacting to industrialism in the mid-nineteenth century as merely one example.

(Although I imagine many industrialists minimized and trivialized that circumstance also...)

I still know a handful employed in Rochester . . . It's like a dead icon to that community. There was something about flying into Rochester at night and seeing that old Kodak and Xerox lit up on the buildings.

really saddens me to read this.

For all the technical arts preserved by patents, many trade secrets, skill sets, and institutional memories are lost.

It's not the same thing as the economists' pejorative "buggy whips." The high tech chemistry and physics of the film industry have many applications in other fields -- electronics, energy, pharmaceuticals, communications...

Our society would be much more resilient and progressive if science and technology were open and transparent and the preservation and pursuit of knowledge were not left to the whims of the amoral market.

When a corporation ceases to exist, perhaps we should release the patents to the public domain and maintain the arts and technologies within our public institutions of higher learning; the arts of the science labs to the universities, the arts of the production line to the trade schools.

This is really tragic, a company who first developed the digital camera is being brought down by it.

This is happening in the industry I have worked 30 years, I am hoping for 15 more years because I am too damned old to start over.

In 1980 one in five employees in Rochester were employed by Eastman Kodak Company.

There were nearly 62,000 employees employed by Eastman Kodak, today that number struggles to reach 5,000.

It's been devestating to the local economy.

Driving down Lake Avenue and the surrounding Kodak Park area looking at the demolished infrastructure footprints is sad.

The resturants, diners, florists, car dealerships and convenient stores that were once supported by these employees have been long gone.

:sigh:

and stayed afloat