27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
1:26 p.m.
At the start
of this year's HPCC conference I quoted a paragraph from
'The Voice of the Crystal'. Basically it said that people (as a whole)
have never been better educated, and that there's never been more
information available, but we don't know how to _think_ any more.
Unfortuantely I feel that is exactly right.
I don't agree. There's never been more information avaiable. I still remember when I was 14 (1991) that I bought my TTL
Data Book (second
edition, orange hard cover) and paid $150 for it - 10 months paying $15 and
Ouch!. I can remember buing various databooks in the mid 1980s (Texas
TTL, Zilog microprocessors, Motorola 8-bit processors/peripherals and so
on). They were typically \pounds 15 to \pounds 20 each. Quite expensive
for a schoolboy at the time, but cheaper than you had to pay.
-tony