JohnnyLightwave,
Back in the day I personally worked on some very advanced microwave circuits in very small packages.
And long before that I knew cool photons would soon replace hot, pokey electrons.
A teensy, tiny Control Data supercomputer to meet the coming overwhelming challenge of Japan's "Fifth Generation" AI was yet bulked up enormously for plumbing of liquid nitrogen to cool the monster but could still be held in one hand. With cool photons one might lose the super computer under a fingernail like a co-worker in Vietnam did with tiny film from a camera built into a general's eyeglasses.
Not making fun of you, Johnny. Not in the least. Only noting obsolescence that once took generations moves faster and faster as old men remember too well what they once did and forget what they couldn't.
My father scoffed at the old men in Ireland who railed against younger men having horses do all the work. Surprisingly he knew the sweat and tears and dangers of working with horses but recognized machines were no bed of roses for the younger generation.
Not only Control Data's supercomputer, and the consortium of companies built by GE's bungling efforts to overwhelm the IBM upstart trying to meet the scary Fifth Generation AI threat, were blown away along with Japan's fantasy that lives on in a comedic way with the preposterous quantum computer phantasmagoria.
We both know, Johnny, that the magical glop that tames photons that don't actually exist will change the world and probably very soon. We know that for very, very, very, absolute certain - almost.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker was a very bright man, an idol of the autistic young Albert Einstein. Well Dr. Lasker might have been an idol of young Albert as the World Chess Champion for 22 years had an estimated IQ rating higher than all the other world chess champions and even that of the latter day Einstein.
"Dr. Lasker," asked a reporter, "don't you have to have an enormous memory of good moves to be world champion."
"The key to winning chess games," opined the old pirate, "is not remembering good moves but forgetting bad ones."
Best, Terry
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