I also wonder about the state of packet radio.

When I had time, I had no money for equipment. Now that I have money and knowledge, no time…

I don’t think the current cost structure of software development would support a professional engineer signing their name on releases or the required skill level of the others to enable such …

We’d actually have to respect software development as an important task and not a cost to be minimized and outsourced.

The discrete and “xor” parts of your comment made me think of this:

https://wolframphysics.org/

(Though I realize likely many have various objections)

I still struggle a bit with General Relativity. Understand everything is moving at a constant speed through spacetime (speed of light in a vacuum) with just the direction slightly shifting from “only along time” to the spatial dimensions.

I find it both elegant but also viscerally disturbing. Connecting time and spatial movement makes the universe seem artificial. Know it comes out from Maxwells’ equation… but it feels “wrong”.

Seems all human physical snd chemical activity is just preoccupied with transferring momentum from objects with slightly different angles of motion.

Now I gotta find a modern Gravis Gamepad!

You’re assuming a future with highly competent specialists who also don’t make medical decisions based on insurance requirements.

Unfortunately too many radiologists and specialists are more focused on upping cash flow than medical care.

Sounds delicious for poisoning search engine crawlers and other bots…

People do tend to be pretty good at things they been doing for almost half their life!

Mirabilis should have built Slack…

I feel this.

When I was young, I had excellent eyesight and crappy CRTs. Might even have been 20/15. Could even read the microprint added to currency.

Now we have amazing displays but not as striking now even if the glasses correct minor astigmatism well.

Doesn’t seem like an enormous difference between modern TVs and LED backlit panels almost 20 years ago. (Yes, newer displays are a bit brighter, but nothing like the CRT to LCD transition then)

Recently got a nice 4k 27" OLED, and it's been a considerable upgrade over the regular backlit 27" LCD I had before.

When I got my first LCD, it looked a bit better for reading and such, but had worse motion clarity than my CRT for games, so I'd say this OLED upgrade was comparable.

Too bad Franklin didn’t just quote Spock:

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…”

(/s)

Thanks for educating us!