Re: retrograde technologies?
EvMick@aol.com
Sat, 29 May 1999 17:17:22 EDT
In a message dated 5/29/99 8:25:12 AM Central Daylight Time, ckuecker@mcs.net
writes:
>
> This does not imply that the actual knowledge is lost - just that the
> know-how to make the knowledge into product is missing. The field-effect
> transistor was known in the early years of the 20th century as a
> possibility, to physicists, as was nuclear fission, but until the
> infrastructure developed to make either viable, they remained dreams.
>
this is an interesting point.. I'm wondering that with the advent of full
blown nanotech will this argument go away?
Evmick