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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9894)	11/14/2010 5:09:36 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 69300

Computer infrastraucture and power have grown exponentially, yes. But I consider these increments, engineering developments of core technologies that were already in place. The chip and its ancillary technologies were in place by 1970. There has been a spate of minor technological innovations (like asynchronous transfer, data compression, optical storage... or consumer baubles like flat screens and multifunction cell phones) but nothing that impresses me as a new enabling technology. The nearest thing with which I can come up "on the fly" as a new scientific discovery would be the inferential discovery of exoplanets. We haven't directly imaged one yet. cheers js