15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
4:34 p.m.
On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, der Mouse wrote:
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.
Sorry, I'm a pessimist these days :(
I suspect 50 years from now things will have turned almost full circle,
The
device that people will use will be small, portable, and always
connected
to the Internet with a huge wireless pipe, all the actual computing will
take place in great mainframe like computing centers with everything
carefully
watched, monitored and recorded. The user will be able to access their
data
But
it's not even unlikely that half a century from now our clean and
neat binary logic hardware will be as robust and orthogonal-seeming
as electron tube logic does today. In fact, I think this is just as
or more likely than the former scenario.
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. from any device anywhere, and it will be stored in the
"internet" for
them
free of charge.