[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[David Goodman]

additionally, a simple lens can be ground  with hand tools and no
preexisting technology except glassmaking to produce several hundred
power magnification


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What are you using to compare the quality of optics to the quality of computers?
>
> * For example, having optics for 2700 years and having computers for
> somewhat more than 50 years.
> * Optics is able to help humans with disabilities for a long time,
> while computers are just starting with that task.
> * Optics is able to reach events around the beginning of the Universe,
> while computers are starting now to make really big things (for
> example, really useful Internet for a lot of humans exists a couple of
> years).
> * A lot of basic cures invented thanks to optics.
> * Thanks to optics we are able to make computers.
> * Generally, everything which differs one simple technology from the
> complex contemporary technology depends on optics.
>
> Of course, it is [still] not possible to compare such things exactly;
> as well as such comparison may be a good source for parody. And, of
> course, computers started to help in all of those fields, but,
> generally, the most of ordinary things around us still depend much
> more on optics than on computers.
>
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