Re: [APML] The End of Tech Pan???

[Glenn Shaw <gshaw@alaska.net>]

I cannot help but mention that this writer, below, brings up an old and quite
wonderful philosophical argument about the nature of the Universe.

Since BC 300, with Plato it was starting to be suspected that the universe
might in fact be digital (with the introduction of the "atomos"). Since the
swining 1920's Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein overthrew forever the idea of a
purely analogue universe.

And though philosophical debates rarely have anything to do with anything of
anything practical, here they are quite wonderfully relevant because our
compeitor, the CCD camera, is starting to reach its limits in the digital
photon-by-photon universe, much as this may seem strange to us mortals living
in a continua.

All best smiles and good cheer,

Glenn shaw

mohib_ebrahim.smz@attglobal.net wrote:

> > I still have a beautiful Omega enlarger with colour
> >head, works as good as the day it was new.  Problaly 20 years old
> >now.   Same for the lenses that came with it.
> >         However,  no way you would ever buy a 20 year old or ten year
> >scanner or digital camera or computer - it would be obsolete.
>
> That is the difference between analogue and digital. The universe is
> analogue. Digital will forever try with better and better approximations to
> copy analogue.
>
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