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Subject: Re: Re: You cant go home again - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Jan 13 17:08:00 1984

Re: finnca1@topaz's comments on weather forecasting

Replacing expertise with raw computer power has its shortcomings--the
"joke" of predicting the weather 24 hours from now in 26 hours of cpu
time is a case in point.  Less accurate but more timely forecasts used
to be made by people with slide-rules--and where are these people now?

It wouldn't surprise me if the 20th century had its share of "lost arts".
Archaelogists still dig up things that we don't know quite how to make,
and the technological historians of the next century might well be faced
with the same sorts of puzzles when reading about how people got by
without computers.
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)