From:	"Michael R. Goldberg" <mrgoldbe@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Crash
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:47:29 -0600

Actually Mark,

The Fiber Optics bit, I believe, is mentioned in the Corporate
Sourcebook which then validates a novel that Finley put out. (Of
course it has been a while since I have read either, so I might be off,
although I clearly remember them slamming Fiber Optics.)

Basically, Fiber Optics (as strange as this sounds) was only recently
rediscovered and there was a big shadow war to make sure that no one
had an advantage over another competitor with releasing the information
on how to do them again.

If they did _that_ to Fiber Optics (no matter how unrealistic it is
that no one would have recreated them by 2050, let alone the year they
did that thread), then it does stand that other technologies would
suffer the same problems.

Which is why I asked.

Yes, paper copies should have kept the technology and what it was
capable of present in their [corporate] minds, but have you ever
reversed engineered a computer program that you haven't touched in
three-five (plus) years based on the paper trail that is available on
it? It isn't as easy as it looks.

There is a reason that most Mainframe programs have not been re-written
into client-server technologies.

Mike