Guys,
I love this line of thinking and talk. My absolute favorite for this kind of thinking is the Star Trek 4 movie, "The Voyage Home" where they are trying to get the humped back whales back to earth of their own time period.
Remember the scene in the hospital where they are trying to rescue Checkov who had fallen and hit his head and was all messed up with a brain bleed of some sort (Ya you docs probably remember the actual Diagnosis, right? Basic Sub-dural hematoma I believe, did I butcher the spelling enough too?). So as McCoy is going around the hospital he keeps complaining how they are in the "Dark Ages" and working with "Sticks and Stones" and how primative it all is. There was the scene in the elevator where he starts taking on the two docs for their primative methods.
And then when they find Pavel the Neuro guys are talking about releiving the intercranial pressure, so MacCoy starts carrying on about "No man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer, you've got to get in there and repair the actual artery." So they spout back that this all makes sense in theory but how does he propose they actually do so, and so he wipes out his little headpiece device and proceeds to repair the actual bleed.
And that old lady in renial failure who is moaning on a stretcher in the hallwall awaiting dialysis who he gave a simple little pill to and a few moments later she up and about all happy and well.
That has got to be one of the best Treks of all time. All the "Sticks and Stones" like references in it. I just love that movie... And it speaks so well to what the two of you are getting at here. Transparent Aluminum....
My uncle was a very early adopter on computers as a college professor, in the English dept of CUNY, Queens College, Got a lot of recognition for all of that back then. Uncle Joe likes to remind us that even as early as the seventies although we all sort of knew computers were going to be increasingly important and so it was important to know and use them, adopt them, that even then, nobody really saw the micro-processor coming that would eventually lead to all of these multiple strong little PC's on everybody's desk no less a few of them in most homes. It is simply "Amazing".....
