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To: Mike M2 who wrote (54980)	1/6/2001 10:25:31 AM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

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To: Mike M2 who wrote (54980)	1/6/2001 11:29:23 AM
From: clochard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Computers have been in use since the early 60s and their main benefits to the economy have been maximized by 1990 IMO. The evolution since 1990 have enhanced the hobby and entertainment aspects (i.e. games, digital photography, music) and ease of use (i.e. 3D pie charts, windowing, printing megatons of pretty reports). There is nothing inside this bubble!

To: Mike M2 who wrote (54980)	1/7/2001 10:15:12 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 436258

History will likely prove you wrong. The internal combustion engine is in a sense the iron age's last magnificent gasp. But I believe that entering the information age (I dislike the term "the internet" since it just represents a small but highly visible tip of the iceberg) will be vastly more far reaching in its effects. Biotechnology alone as we currently see it couldn't be done without computers, and I doubt anyone is willing to say that this isn't going to be amazingly important going forward; there will be things done in biotech that'll make cloning that sheep look like a crystal radio compared to a qualcomm cdma cell phone. Already the global economy depends essentially on computer linked banking networks (SWIFT network, etc) At any rate, the auto and internal combustion engines are important, but steam engines and locomotives predated them, and they all run up against the laws of thermodynamics. In a way the auto and the otto cycle engine were like the PC/internet, they were the fruits of a long succession of developments that fell together to make something possible that just took off suddenly as if it had to. What superficially appeared to be just a bubble was in large part the result of a lot of slow development reaching fruition. The auto changed the world, but the information age will change it a lot further and the world will be just as unrecognizable several generations out.