From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 16:11:11 MST
>> The interesting thing (at least to me) is that if something
>> built this way breaks, there is no way in hell you are going
>> to be able to fix it.
Another somewhat saturnine observation: it's another nail in the coffin
of hobby electronics--hacking the internals of a throwaway calculator
or radio used to be one of the rites of passage. Harder to do that when
everything is a Daliesque blob of function.
Bring on desktop tomography!
Gee, I wonder where I can rent a copy of _eXistenZ_...
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