| From: | Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: The Crash |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:22:00 -0800 |
> 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.
I see there being a set-back only in the sense of delay. The Crash would
have clearly devestated economies as much of the electronic transfer of
funds (absolutely critical nowadays) would have been halted at least for a
time and markets would have been disrupted, but I don't know of any major
research firm that wouldn't have made hardcopy of their data and programs,
if not airgapped them. To an extent, viral transfer could have affected a
few of these airgapped systems (damn SneakerNet...) but no computer will
jump out and shred paperwork. I can see for a time the research funds
being rather dried up while some of this sorted itself out, but I can't
really see any regressions in technologies.
Does FASA have any specific claims? (Realistic or not....)
> (PS. Yes, this would be a better topic for RN, but I still don't
> belong. *grin*.)
Me neither. Don't want to. That's what this list is for anyway, isn't
it?
--My two yen
Jeff
