[Elecraft] Technology Change
brian
alsopb at comcast.net
Fri Sep 23 09:46:40 EDT 2016
One unwelcome change is the proliferation of icons, emoji and other
pictograms instead of words. We are headed back to the days of
hieroglyphics--devolution. Ten lines of text in a news article is being
displaced by megabytes of video.
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 9/23/2016 12:42 PM, Morgan Bailey wrote:
> Whats this 6146 stuff...what happened to the 1628 or the 807...and not to
> mention the trusty 813 and for the big power ...304TL...whoot bring on them
> big filament transformers...
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu,9/22/2016 8:24 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>>
>>> Two thoughts on this . . .
>>>
>>
>> Great observations, Ted! And one more thought, articulated in a novel by
>> Thomas Wolfe, published in 1940. The title is "You Can't Go Home Again."
>> The meaning of the title is that we can't go back to where we grew up (or
>> where we had "a life") and expect it to be the same, because things change
>> in many ways. People we knew then have moved on, they have
>> grown/changed/evolved, the things that made up the life of that place and
>> of those people are different, often VERY different. So we can go back to
>> the same physical place, but we can't go back to the life we remembered.
>> And it's not that our memory is faulty, but rather that the world has moved
>> on.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
>>
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