Very interesting especially the 'shedding' of stuff - more about this later... There are some good examples of 'new' technologies that are just re-workings of older stuff and if we are to pass on some knowledge to a new generation I sometimes feel that we should keep some of the older stuff to demonstrate the fundamentals. One that comes to mind is RS232 / serial inside Bluetooth - old RS232 device are just great to demo flow-control etc etc. Mike On 29/08/15 09:34, Rohan McLeod wrote:
David E Payne wrote:
On Thu, 27/8/15, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Get thee behind me Satan ! :-) regards Rohan Mcleod _______________________________________________
Rohan, that's a commendably brief summary of the feelings me, and probably many of us.
Problem is, I feel rendering these works of craft back to dumb lumps of metals is a greater evil!
Well more seriously collection of "stuff" can be a real danger to the mental health and life-style of people like myself who have a, tendency to collect it. In 2012 I had to divest myself of a collection of 'stuff' much of it IT technology representing uncompleted projects going back some18 years. Because I needed to move from a house with a shed- workshop to a flat, with a micro-workshop in a bathroom /laundry, with very little storage space. Let's just say it was a very mentally exhausting process deciding which projects to abandon, and thus which technology to dump .... but in the end beneficial; as those projects were using up mental energy !
On the subject of historical techological developments, there doesn't seem to be or ever have been any systematic approach to recording such. I was reminded of this watching a TV documentary on , some archeologists trying to recover the processes whereby stone castles were built in the 13th century. Currently I think a great deal of historical technological development and expertise is being lost in Europe, as European manufacturing products; like Australian counterparts are replaced by cheaper Chinese ones.
One question I have always thought interesting in technological development is whether there a way of ordering it; as say things which can be found in the natural environment as say level 0 (eg rocks, wood... then things which can be made from level 0 say level 1 etc. Then for example. what level would say a ball-point pen be ?
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