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.
Don't be so sure about
"minimal effort". What if electricity is no
longer used in computers, and the photon based computer is all that
matters?
Then you need to output from electronic logic with LEDs, and input with
phototransistors. Big schmeel. :-)
I expect electricity to still be in use, even if only as a means of
schlepping power around. And as long as electricity is in use, I
expect electronics to be with us in some form or other.
"But please remember: this is only a prediction. The truth, as always,
will be far stranger." Not quite the original quote, but I think not
an unjustified mutation of it. :)
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