On 09-23-97 Jim Dunmyer wrote to Day Brown... 
 
 JD>  > But, in 20 years, you won't find any 1990 antiques on the road;  
 JD>  
 JD> Maybe, maybe not. If there's a demand, parts will be  
 JD> available. If not, well.... 
Maybe.. hmm. well the future is always foggy; I try to see what I 
can, and lord knows have been wrong enough.  Most of my forecast 
about the 1990s is that the electronic components are borrowed 
designs from the electronic industry, which has always had design 
lives on the order of seven years, the changes being so fast in 
the field that after that, the parts are obsolete. 
 
It relates to the new battery technology now that the research is 
reaching the atomic level.  I dunno if they will get production 
advances as fast as they have in chip technology, or if it is as 
applicable; but if so, the power we need density will be there. 
 
Kinda like the 'cancer' cure, or 'fusion' energy, we all been 
waiting a looooooooong time now.  Is all vaporware? dunno. 
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