[Coco] Old techies

[Fred D. Provoncha]

> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:49:42 -0600
> From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Old techies
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> At 06:31 PM 2/11/2009, you wrote:

> >> Here's something kind of funny, sort of relating to the old CoCo days.
> >> I'm currently formatting my newest PC hard drive, 1.5 TB.
> >> That's only 75,000 times bigger than my good old ST-225.  Same brand 
> >> though!  :) 
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> >> It boggles the mind sometimes how fast tech is advancing.
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> It's scary, too.  The bigger these storage devices get, the more we 
> lose in a crash.  Things are getting more and more vunerable to zaps, 
> theft, and just plain losing things because they're too small.
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> I'm 40 years old and none of the new ideas and gadgets seem to raise 
> my eyebrows anymore.  We've just got too much for our own good.
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> Eventually we'll have newspapers with videos on the paper, 
> insanely-super-high-def 3-D TVs without the glasses, and cheap home 
> telescopes that can see a pebble sitting on the surface of some 
> planet in another galaxy or see the light coming from the beginning 
> of the universe.  At the rate we're going none of the above would 
> surprise me if we had it.  But the scariest thought yet is when they 
> come up with a way to wirelessly store data in our own brain.  I'm 
> sure somebody out there is working on that one.   :) 

 > -- > Roger Taylor I'm an avid science fiction fan, as I'm sure some 
of you are as well. I've read a lot of older sci-fi from the '40's, 
'50's, '60's and '70's, and two things that I find that sci-fi authors 
back then usually got wrong when attempting to predict advancements in 
technology, was human spaceflight and computers. They tended to 
overestimate our rate of advancement in human spaceflight (they were 
predicting colonies on Mars by now, and here we are still stuck in lower 
Earth orbit). They tended to UNDERESTIMATE advancement in computers. We 
have cell phones now that appear more powerful than Kirk's communicators 
in Star Trek's 23rd Century. Advancement in computer technology has far 
outpaced what old sci-fi writers predicted. Fred Provoncha Stansbury 
Park, UT



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