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Yes. This is all getting computerized. Think about it. The designers will be equivalent to today's script bunnies (that's not the correct term). If the spec doesn't work, the user will get a flash error message which may, or may not, be noticed.

No, all that will be done by robots who will be told by the output of a CAD program.

I see worse. A lot worse. Do some research. Take a look at the clbuttes our future kiddies are taking. I just a list from my nephew (another reason I'm in serious rant mode). He is taking a clbutt (get this, a whole college clbutt slot wasted) to study why women don't do computers. I am so peeed off I can't type st ra ight.

Sigh! Take a good look at how billyboy and his flavor of business plans hide knowledge and try to keep it completely internal.

This is not a single science course in the list my nephew sent me. I know he was told three years ago that physics isn't required for computer work. Excuse me? How in the hell does anybody do any kind of useful design work if they don't know that electricity and c is slow? That a pretty cartoon seen on the TTY can only be made in real life if it doesn't break physical laws.

It was never was at the forefront. It was specialized knowledge learned and worked by a few. That's how it should be. However, those who were not a member of the few were aware that these types existed and that certain facts such as physics existed. There is a sick thinking going on that, if it's old knowledge, it's not good knowledge. The decisions are based on the age of the knowledge, not it's veracity.

And, as things get smaller and more sophisticated, this will be done with software and-or firmware sanity checks. Some innovative designs won't be done because the software that drives the manufacturing can't do it. I've seen this happen with the Jupiter work. A human being could wirewrap a "fix". But if the software doing the wirewrap could not incorporate the fix, it didn't become a fix and had to have a different solution (which seemed to create bandages on bandages on bandages).

Note that I have no idea how this stuff is done today, but I suspect the same things have to happen. It was like fixing a bug in the monitor; a patch was easy; getting the same fix into the sources was not trivial.

But this is where quite a few problems happen. I tried to describe them ^up there^.

Are you sure about this buttumption? I'm not. I made a similar buttumption about other things. The knowledge is now gone.

You are ignoring the fact that we haven't hit the physics limit yet. Airplanes and autos have. We are not a mature industry..yet.

BAH