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Old May 31st 04, 08:59 PM
Veeduber
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Actually, I don't agree with you, there.

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Me too, but for a different reason.

Application and use of technology by humans reflects a kind of Moore's Law. To
obtain useful service from the first cars (circa 1880's) typically required a
driver, mechanic and 'boy.' (Duties of the latter were never defined very
well; he appears to have been a kind of gopher.)

Nowadays cars are virtual transportation appliances, the skills and experience
needed to start, steer and maintain them codified into electronic codes or
built-in to the structure of the machine.

The Wright's 'Flyer' was an astable handful to pilot. But it evolved to where
nowdays any idiot can drive a plane and most do.

I can't see any indications of something that might limit this evolution-of-use
in any field. Plenty of obstructions but history provides numerous examples of
that as well, allowing the thoughtful to catch an occaisonal glimpse of the
forest that lays ahead in spite of the trees.

-R.S.Hoover