Is this obvious? True, the timescale is not seconds, hours, or even days. But corporations do change their inner workings, and they have also been known to change the way they change their inner workings. I suggest that if a corporation of today were dropped into the 1950s, and operated on 1950s technology but with modern technique, it would rapidly outmaneuver its downtime competitors; and that the same would be true for any gap of fifty years, back to the invention of the corporation in the Middle Ages.
I am suggesting that a ten-year recursion time is fast. I don’t know where you got your million years; what corporations have been around for a million years?
Is this obvious? True, the timescale is not seconds, hours, or even days. But corporations do change their inner workings, and they have also been known to change the way they change their inner workings. I suggest that if a corporation of today were dropped into the 1950s, and operated on 1950s technology but with modern technique, it would rapidly outmaneuver its downtime competitors; and that the same would be true for any gap of fifty years, back to the invention of the corporation in the Middle Ages.
I suggest it is—for anything but the most crippled definition of “FOOM”.
Right, FOOM by its onomatopoeic nature suggest a fast recursion, not a million-year-long one.
I am suggesting that a ten-year recursion time is fast. I don’t know where you got your million years; what corporations have been around for a million years?
I’m inclined to agree—there are pressures in a corporation to slow improvement rather than to accelerate it.
Any organization which could beat that would be extremely impressive but rather hard to imagine.