Subj : Re: Technology (Was: Re:
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sat Feb 22 2020 22:13:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-20-20  06:35 <=-

 > But I think the tag is more about how quickly technology tends to
 > accelerate.... 
 JM> I like the older detective shows (Columbo, etc) and always get a
 JM> chuckle when say Colombo comes across something cutting edge (c.
 JM> 1970-90) and has to be told how something works.
 JM> "What is that machine on the table?"
 JM> It's a personal computer.
 JM> "You mean like those big room size machines that crunch numbers?"
 JM> Yes, you can use it for data processing....
 JM> "You mean like a typewriter?  Where do you put the paper?"
 JM> You don't need paper, you write whatever and send it over the phone
 JM> wire to another computer.
 JM> "How does that work?"
 JM> And so on.  :)

Knowing Colombo, half of that would have been to draw more info out of
them... one always got the feeling that he knew a lot more than he was
letting on.... :)

 JM> I also figure 20 years from now people will get a chuckle out of our
 JM> current cutting age technology and how primitive it was.

Quite likely.... and we'll be the ones trying to figure out that new
tech that's replacing what we knew about.... <G>

ttyl         neb

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