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From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Jochen Kunz wrote: But not a microprocessor.? Yet. If she were to have been on the SOAR (SmallTalk On A Risc) project, think about what we might be using now! C: But she's utilizing old world technologies, homemade furnaces and whatnot. She has an intrepid nature I grant, and my hats off to her. But it stands to be seen whether she'll break new ground. You need people who will think out of the box, and the emphasis is on *thinking*. You're not going to come up w/anything new unless you're mired in those lines of thinking. ?I had an instructor in college who was very depressed. He said since the laser and transistor nothing new has been invented. Only shrunken down, or made cheaper to manufacture. Some "older" particle physicists bemoan the concentration on avant garde theories having to do w/strings and whatnot, stuff that largely lacks falsification criteria. People go where there's the hype, and don't want to get their hands dirty so to speak.