15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
2:39 p.m.
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 :(
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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.