rcd@ico.UUCP (06/15/87)
> Enuff on how graphics will chew MIPS. It will, but not like SIMULATION ! > A revolution is occurring today in engineering, where more and more > computers, chemicals, parts and systems are thoroughly SIMULATED before > even a first prototype is built... If you don't get too serious about it, the philosophical implications are striking... At the point that we are using our fastest computers to design new computers, we have reached the point that the computers are self-repro- ducing--in fact, self-evolving. We exist in some bizarre symbiotic relationship with them, but it's the computers that are reproducing now with our help. And, of course, adding AI to the CAD work and robotics to the assembly process only carries it further! Too trite for good sci-fi material, but reality is sometimes like that. -- Dick Dunn {hao,nbires,cbosgd}!ico!rcd (NOT CSNET!) (303)449-2870 ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.
nather@eddie.MIT.EDU (nather@astro -- just visiting) (06/15/87)
> If you don't get too serious about it, the philosophical implications are > striking... > > At the point that we are using our fastest computers to design new > computers, we have reached the point that the computers are self-repro- > ducing--in fact, self-evolving. We exist in some bizarre symbiotic > relationship with them, but it's the computers that are reproducing now > with our help. And, of course, adding AI to the CAD work and robotics to > the assembly process only carries it further! Too trite for good sci-fi > material, but reality is sometimes like that. > -- > Dick Dunn {hao,nbires,cbosgd}!ico!rcd (NOT CSNET!) (303)449-2870 > ...I'm not cynical - just experienced. Well, if we can't use it for SF, maybe a rock tune entitled Ahm jest a biological bootstrap, baybeee, Workin' for a CPU ... z z z z z z z (content-free addition to shut up readnews)