25 Sep
2012
25 Sep
'12
12:47 p.m.
C: I don't know what you mean exactly by the
_apocalypse_, but if
you're referring to *the* apocalypse, it already happened.
A long, long time ago.
Whichever one you may be referring to, it's only one of many. But, to
clarify, I meant the *next* one (affecting this planet).
what's wrong w/optical storage? I know,
there's been loads of
discussion.
Well, building a CDROM drive (or DVD-ROM drive) from scratch might be a
bit of a challenge. A microscope,
on the other hand, is something that we've been able to build since the
1600s. Admittedly this technology
will need something slightly better than that, but at least we'll have
many subsequent generations to perfect
the technology. Whereas if the survivors had to build CDROm drives from
scratch, they might find most of the
media unreadable by the time they succeeded.
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org