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RE: I Thought I was in love

Subject: RE: I Thought I was in love
From: Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:36:48 -0800
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> When are they going to invent something new? Accursed pistons
> with gears and
> joints and ten million moving parts. Nothing better mechanically
> since 1919.

Ok, I give up.  What was the big mechanical improvement in 1919 ?

> In technology, as a general rule it's said that when the control unit
becomes
> more advanced than the machine it's controlling it's a sure sign that the
> fundamental principle of the system is obsolete.

I'm having a hard time with this concept.  Until they come up with something
more advanced than man, then every machine has a control unit that is more
advanced than it is.

Randall

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