ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (01/15/84)
#R:ucbtopaz:-37000:ucbesvax:1100007:000:686 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. --- Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)