Some Random Companies come to my mind 1) Digital 2) CRAY 3) Siliconn Graphis 4) Borland 5) Xerox 6) Old HP 7) Compaq 8) Sun 9) Sinclair 10) Atari 11) Comodore 12) Microsoft (no visionaire left) 13) Netscape 14) Control Data and the list goes on. Maybe some companies die with their creators

"as bringing up the standard of living in those nations to that of the West is impossible given the Earth's finite resources"

I am curious to see the study that supports scientifically this hypothesis.
eg like the folowing simplified example
X = square killometers of good land to grow food =( Y land for potatoes + Z land for tomatos +W land for animal farming) then (Y * tons of potatos/square kilometer + Z * tons of potatos/square kilometer + w * tons of meat/square kilometeters ) / P population of planet earth / 365 days a year = a daily meat potato tomato meal < decent, healthy meal for a human being (that will not get you unhealthy fat)
Do you have any idea how much food, goods etc is thrown into garbage every day in the western world?

well, good bye and thanks for all the fish! i wish i had mod points. so +insightfull. But the real question is not really about software. Has the time arrived for an other kind of ECONOMY?.