Terry wrote:
The new "core" memory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM
Another example of recurring technology. AKA the corkscrew model of
industrial progress. I quoted P. Eddy on this subject:
"Contrary to one standard illusion, modern technology does not
advance with breathtaking speed along a predictable linear track.
Progress goes hesitantly much of the time, sometimes encountering
long fallow periods and often doubling back unpredictably upon its path."
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistora.pdf
I mentioned magnetic RAM in this paper. This version of the paper
includes a photo I took just outside my office, showing a parked
airplane. The caption:
"A Piaggio P180 Avanti. The company claims, "The Avanti was developed
by discarding conventional aeronautical thinking!" -
http://www.piaggioamerica.com/, but ironically this design is
reminiscent of history's first airplanes, the 1903 - 1909 Wright
Flyers, with a canard wing forward and twin pusher propellers mounted
on the wings."
- Jed
