20 Jan
2007
20 Jan
'07
3:02 p.m.
A couple of decades down the line I think we're
going to have real
problems - not just with computers, but with all sorts of modern gadgets -
as the complexity is just too high and the necessary knowledge often
locked away within companies. Understanding of parts, diagnosing faults,
and fixing them won't get any easier I suspect, and sourcing those parts
in the first place gets harder each day.
But Jules, I doubt much of we have today will be a "collectible".
Computers has no more soul, what differs a dell from a compaq notebook? A pc
from another? I don't think there will be so much
collectables. You save a
11/750, a macintosh 128, something like that because they
have soul, they
have so much connected with you. But what connections we have to a PC
nowadays?
Speaking of gadgets: Many of these things are widely avaiable. I can't
enumerate something that is not produced by milions! I have a Nokia 6600
telephone I'm sure I'll use up to the day I can afford a iPhone, if it
breaks? I can fix! If I can't fix? Well, there are some milions of 6600
units, it is cheaper to have 4 or 5 save for the future.
Maybe the age of collectibles is going to an end - although who though
an Altair would have so much value in the future?