[DeTomaso] Computers....past and present

[gow2 at rc-tech.net]

Seems like technology slows it down some times.

Question about new and old:

What ultimately limited the size of the space shuttle booster rockets?




> I have read several times in the past that since 1900, we have doubled all
> technology every ten years from the previous ten years.
> I find it amazing when visiting old buildings like Biltmore House, Empire
> State Building, etc. that they could do that and yet didn't have a single
> power tool, a computer, etc.
> I go to car shows and look at early cars with workmanship not offered
> today
> and then also scratch my head at how complicated they made some things
> that
> didn't need to be when something much simpler would have worked. Look at
> early torsion bar suspensions and just think, HELLO.
> Didn't you guys have coil springs? To me, disk brakes seem far simpler
> than
> drum brakes...what about simple things like wipers, rear view mirrors,
> seat
> belts...they seem so obvious now. Racing caused those innovations, just
> seems like they would have been come much sooner.
> We had electric windows, automatic dimmers and air conditioning in cars
> before even the most rudimentry ABS.
>
> Michael
>  On Jan 27, 2013 4:19 PM, "David" <adin at frontier.net> wrote:
>
>> Absolutely, think about this: my grandfather lived in a world where an
>> airplane coming to town was a huge event. And old Pete saw man walk on
>> the
>> moon!
>>
>> Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
>>
>> Sent from my little hand held gizmo
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2013, at 2:01 PM, gow2 at rc-tech.net wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
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