Re: Asimov Site

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Matt Jenkins wrote:

> Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> >> One day, physical items
> >> will be just as easily copied as software is today. There might be
> >> limitations, but one day it will happen, even fools should be able to see
> >> that. Whether its 10 years from now, or 50,000 who can say? Should today's
> >> rules apply then?
>
> > Been watching a bit too much of Star Trek I'd say.
>
> I would have thought that someone with an interest in information
> technology would be a little more open minded.
>
> Throughout history, people have claimed future inventions to be silly,
> impossible or whatever. Surely it has happened enough by now that you can
> realise the foolishness of such claims..

And do you realize how foolish it is to put words in other people's mouths Matt?
I'm fully aware of how technology has grown, and the limited thinking of people.
I'm quite aware of how science fiction has often depicted a future that has come
about (and also been way off base too - in the 1960s we were supposed to have
flying cars)

I remember seeing Mr. Spock on Thursday evenings on NBC with his hand held
calculator before such a thing existed, and the "tapes" that were about the size
of our 3.5" floppy disks inserted into the computers. I also remember how the US
Navy was interested in the bridge layout of TOS Enterprise and considered it was
a possible model for their vessels.

But I've never fallen for the more comic book level of stuff like John is talking
about.

Roy

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
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