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To: combjelly who wrote (707544)	4/5/2013 3:47:31 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1583867

>> Today's missile defenses are nothing like what Reagan had funded. No, and today's microprocessor is nothing like the TMS1000 or the 4004, either. But surely, you would not deny the importance of these processors their place in history. If some fool had looked at these early processors and said, "There is no point. We'll NEVER get to a billion times the processor performance these turkeys provide" -- then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have happened. I can remember time and again when we were told processors would reach the limits of physics only to have someone figure out how to do it. Same is true of most technologies -- when it looked as though HDs couldn't get bigger, some genius figured out how to stand bits on end. Less than 15 years after the introduction of the handheld calculator -- something many people marveled at, idiots pooh-poohed the idea that we could do missile defense. You know this. Many on Reagan's own staff said "We don't think this is possible." But it IS possible. It isn't going to look like his original vision, of course. But only an idiot would argue it isn't possible, because we don't know what the limits of science and technology are. We just don't know. 50 years ago there was one guy on the planet who really believed in nanoscience. Look at it today.