Shit breaks
Except robots.
I just got a service call from a customer who had a programming question about an old robot. A REALLY old robot. it was almost ten years old when I installed it, used, over twenty years ago.
The robot still runs a 24 hour day, and has now been doing so for over thirty years. And aside from (Minimal) normal maintenance it is just ignored. And the new ones are built ten times as well, cost less, carry more, and still have a published reliability of 65,000 to 76,000 hours mean time between failure, and most dramatically exceed that.
Wish they made knees.
I had a buddy told he had to wait till he was 60 before they would put a new knee in. He was forty and needed it but they expect them to last 10 years and they can only replace them once.
I’m waiting till they can program those stem cells to fix the cartilage.
John Scalzi, in his SF novel Old Man’s War, theorized about the possibility of transferring a human’s consciousness and memory (the soul, basically) from an aged, dying body into a young, cloned version of the same body. Just as likely would be the ability to digitize the consciousness and memories (soul) into a robot, which would be superior to the senescence a human body would be subject to.
Within a very short time after the first transplant was achieved the horrors of that technology would become clear.
Be thankful that death is final my friend.
Sometimes you just wish they would die so you can throw away the obsolete cables, stop doing serial transfers, not look for a memory card under 528k or a 1.44 floppy disk.
Ed, d’ya know the difference between an old woman and an old ‘puter?
The ‘puter will accept a 3-1/2″ floppy.
*rimshot*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX