> Again, I'm thinking in terms of vacuum tubes, and I can't see how losing
> the knowledge of how they worked is going to affect the future, or even
> the present for that matter.
I'm guessing that there is at least one piece of equipment in your house
that relies on a vacuum tube to opperate that is not some sort of display
device.
> We're so beyond them technologically that they are irrelevant today.
So you don't want television, or radio, or communications satellites, or
radar, or ...
Lee.
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