I wrote that, but since you've taken it out of context - as a retort to a comment about running out of film - you've lost both the immediacy and the humor of the remark. My point was that we won't run out of film, just as we won't run out of pixels - or will we?
I heard some very interesting news today. It seems that the Israelis have produced a very simple and basic computer which runs on human DNA. While the computer is in the very early stages of development, it was able to perform some calculations, just what i don't know. It is said that in a decade or so this concept may be ready for prime time. What does this mean to computer users and users of digital cameras? maybe nothing, or, perhaps it's a signal that these darling digitals are already on the road to obsolecense. The benefits of a DNA computer, as described in the report I heard, is that they are smaller, faster, more energy efficient, and have the potential to handle a lit more information. This is the reality as presented on the news report. Now here's the fantasy: we are able to use these DNA-based computers in a much more immediate fashion, perhaps by tying them into our own minds or sensors (eyes, ears, fingers, etc.) And now we return to our regular programming, and I'm heading back to the darkroom. Mike Johnston wrote: > > > Yeah, but in 30 years, when there are no more pixels, what'll we do? > > We're using pixels at an alarming rate! At some point we'll run out. > > Aha! You see, there's the film mentality for ya. I know whoever wrote this > was joking, but the joke is revealing. We've always had to worry about > running out of film. Film is finite. In actual point of fact, we will never, > of course, run out of pixels. That fact does take a little getting used to. > > --Mike > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/pow/enter.html http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/cameras/pentax_repair_shops.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
