On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
