>Actually not so far-fetched.
Okay. I'll give you that. I guess the point I really should be making is that there are tons of things that are technically possible but will never be done just because of the difficulty of changing the status quo, especially once something becomes a standard. So, for example, we keep burning oil because there's infrastructure in pipelines, tankers, gas stations, refineries, oil companies that don't want to lose their livihood, etc. New technology is risky. It makes investors squeamish. It creates fear of catastrophic failure based on a whole new set of unknowns. Thus, no smoking golfballs;)
Yeah, I have a pile of Popular Science magazines from thirty years ago. Flying cars, smoking golfballs (so you don't lose them), and the replacement for the military tank--a machine that "walks like a man" should all be commonplace today according to their projections. A plane that skips over the atmosphere "like a rock skipping across a pond" is equally batty. I call shenanigans!
Nitpicky semantics != intelligence.
Redundancy is a form of backup since it allows a way to recover data that would be lost if the redundancy were not in place.
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>Actually not so far-fetched. Okay. I'll give you that. I guess the point I really should be making is that there are tons of things that are technically possible but will never be done just because of the difficulty of changing the status quo, especially once something becomes a standard. So, for example, we keep burning oil because there's infrastructure in pipelines, tankers, gas stations, refineries, oil companies that don't want to lose their livihood, etc. New technology is risky. It makes investors squeamish. It creates fear of catastrophic failure based on a whole new set of unknowns. Thus, no smoking golfballs ;)
Yeah, I have a pile of Popular Science magazines from thirty years ago. Flying cars, smoking golfballs (so you don't lose them), and the replacement for the military tank--a machine that "walks like a man" should all be commonplace today according to their projections. A plane that skips over the atmosphere "like a rock skipping across a pond" is equally batty. I call shenanigans!
Maybe you weren't expecting a sloven, coke-bottled, matted-haired geek like the rest of us apparently were.
Nitpicky semantics != intelligence. Redundancy is a form of backup since it allows a way to recover data that would be lost if the redundancy were not in place.
...sed vere malbone.