Sunday, June 19, 2016
We knew
Found a great big resource in GoogleBooks, a 1945 electronics journal aimed at industrial users. Some forgotten ckts, some anticipations of digital stuff, lots of learning.
More broadly interesting: This is a 12-month volume starting at July 45. With magazines, especially trade journals, the actual writing is finished three or four months before the masthead date. So the July issue was mainly written in Feb and Mar 45. What's missing? No war propaganda at all, no wartime atmosphere. It's written on the assumption that the war is over. The ads are in peacetime already, Army surplus distribution is well under way.
This announcement from FCC in the August issue gives a hint of the internal Fed processes. (WPB = War Production Board)
Something similar appears in the auto industry. Passenger car production actually started July 3, 45, which means the order to start would have been given about six months earlier.
In other words: We KNEW around Feb 45 that the war would be done by August. Food for thought.
Nowadays, of course, we're past those primitive notions of "ending" a war. We abandoned the ancient notion in Korea, which is still nominally at war. When we attacked Vietnam, we couldn't schedule an end because we were soundly defeated and ran for our lives. All of our aggressions since then have been carefully designed as self-expanding perpetual motion machines. Attack a country that didn't attack us; kill lots of the natives and piss off the survivors; pick up some of the survivors and forcibly import them into USA and EU so they can attack our natives; when our natives get pissed off at being attacked, bomb them. It's complicated but it works BEAUTIFULLY.
Something similar appears in the auto industry. Passenger car production actually started July 3, 45, which means the order to start would have been given about six months earlier.
In other words: We KNEW around Feb 45 that the war would be done by August. Food for thought.
Nowadays, of course, we're past those primitive notions of "ending" a war. We abandoned the ancient notion in Korea, which is still nominally at war. When we attacked Vietnam, we couldn't schedule an end because we were soundly defeated and ran for our lives. All of our aggressions since then have been carefully designed as self-expanding perpetual motion machines. Attack a country that didn't attack us; kill lots of the natives and piss off the survivors; pick up some of the survivors and forcibly import them into USA and EU so they can attack our natives; when our natives get pissed off at being attacked, bomb them. It's complicated but it works BEAUTIFULLY.
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