On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > And any decent electronics hacker can interface electron-tube logic to
> > modern-day logic with fairly minimal effort. I expect the analogous
> > statement to be true 50 years from now.
>
> If there are any electronics hackers in the future. That sort of activity
> may either be banned or the knowledge lost to time and bad laws, or a
> combination thereof. Or maybe we won't even be around in fifty years.
This (no more low-level tech hackers) might very well be a reality,
yes, if the current trends keep up. Scaring thought...
> Sorry, I'm a pessimist these days :(
Thats why you should go out more, Sellam... and I know *just* the
place where we should go (first) :) Next week, gotta go to court
tonight and tomorrow :(
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Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 14:48:39 GMT