Jack May wrote:
> "Adam Weiss" wrote in message
> news:41E98025.8030809@blockspam.org...
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>>Joey Jolley wrote:
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>>Maybe it could happen in 1 or 2 centuries.
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> Highly unlikely. Technology progresses forward instead of returning to the
> past. I don't think there is any technology from a century or two ago that
> has come back replaced any more modern technology in any significant way.
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Consider that 100 years ago cars were in their infancy. Now one might
say they're in their heyday. Another 100 or 200 years, and perhaps
better technology will be there to make cars obsolete. Technology advances.
> If cars go away, it will be because of them being replaced with more
> advanced technology that meets the needs of people far better than what we
> have now.
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Precisely. I'm sure people in cities in the 19th century, cities
overrun with horse dung and pretty stinky, toyed with the notion of
eliminating horses. But until the better technology of the automobile
came unto its own, there was no feasable way to eliminate the horse
traffic in cities. To do so would have ground modern life to a halt -
just as to fully eliminate cars from the world today would grind life to
a halt.
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