Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Best car I've driven (A.K.A. Old man rambling on Tuesday)

[E M (pokiebaron]

I just got back from the print shop and had a bunch of pictures printed up
off a memory stick.  I find the technology that allows such things as HDs
and memory sticks amazing,but end of the day, I get tired of turning on the
pc just to look at a few pictures.  Hard to beat a hardcopy of a
photography, and no worries of it crashing on you.

Ed
911SC

2008/12/3 Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>

> A corollary to this thought is photography.  We can still view ancient
> tin-type photographs today - but will we be able to read CD-ROMs in 100
> years?  Yes, the CD may still be viable but will there be hardware to read
> it?  Almost certainly not.  There are lots of proprietary-format NASA video
> tapes documenting Mercury, Gemini and Apollo but there is only ONE
> remaining, operable player for that media!  And that was 50 years ago.  Or
> witness magnetic audio tape; reel-to-reel, 4-track (yes, FOUR track,
> preceding 8-track), 8-track, cassette and music CDs.  Already solid-state
> memory and iPOD-like devices are making even the 100-year-shelf-life CD
> obsolete.  I predict that our personal photographic history will become the
> stuff of legends.
>
> regards,
>
> rick
>
> > From: Michael James
>
> > Most of your modern Automotive advances have been
> > Electronic, not entirely mechanical - which, I predict, will
> > all have a very-poor shelf-life.  Imagine trying to repair
> > and source-parts for Ferrari's F1 paddleshift
> > transmissions two decades from now - forget it.  Most
> > electronic-assist machines will be inoperable in 20-30 years
> > simply because automotive electronics do not age well, are
> > disposable/proprietary in the eyes of OEM suppliers, and
> > difficult if not outright impossible for shade-tree
> > mechanics to reverse-engineer without a Masters in Computer
> > Engineering.  Coupled with the dwindling talent pool if
> > REAL automotive mechanics, and most of the newer cars will
> > be forever parked when their ECUs and other electronic
> > engine-management doo-dads fail.
> >
> > M
>
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