[DeTomaso] Computers....past and present

[gow2 at rc-tech.net]

I think the past 150 years are the most amazing years this world will ever
see. We have lived in one of the most amazing times and I believe few
recognize or understand the implication. Look at the life before 1900 and
after the year 2000. Look at the change in between. Horse and buggy to
cars with internet.

I look back and see that my grandfather, who is still very much alive in
my mind very likely could have known people who would have known Lincoln.
Grew up with no cars, sporadic electricity, dirt roads, etc. Children now
don't even know what a rotary telephone is any more.

I fear however, the fall of Rome coming. Our government and world
governments have become so large, consuming and self serving I don't see
how our children and their children will ever see the freedoms we had. 2
months after a storm in NY, NJ people still without power and food in a
society amazingly modern but amazingly strapped by it's own government.

I also don't think they will ever see or truly understand the development
of the modern world as we do. Horse and buggy, Model "T", WWII, 50's cars,
the fall of cool cars in the 70's, into a civilization where cars today
seem more like disposable phones then anything special.

I guess that is why working on old cars is so fun. It is a mix of old and
new, the mix of your discretion, locked in the time of your choosing.

Amazing 150 years! 10,000 years form now they will still be talking about
the time period we lived in....if we don't destroy each other first.