From:	"Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: The Crash
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:55:26 -0800

According to Michael R. Goldberg:
>A tangent to the Space question, what technologies were lost or set
>back in the "Great Matrix" crash? Fiber-Optics was one, but that
>cannot be the only one. The reason I ask is that the crash could have
>easily impacted other technologies as well.

_What_?? A) There's no reason that the notion of fiber optics would have
suffered during the crash (extruding glass: duh), and even if it had, it would
have rebounded long before 205x. I can't think of a single technological area
that should be "deficient" by today's standards as of 205x.
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