X-Message-Number: 28984 From: Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:37:05 EST Subject: Re: Postponing "the future" to the 22nd Century A late answer yet... 1907 was the year where Thompson invented the triode electronics valve, the start of voice radio, not simply Morse code transmission with spark generators Yvan Bozzonetti.. Message #28897 From: "Chris Manning" <> Another way of looking at it might be to cast our minds back to 1907. How would the 20th century have looked then? People then might have thought the 20th century looked pretty lame so far. I don't need to tell you all the developments in science and technology that occurred during the remaining 93 years of that century. How many people then foresaw the very medium by which you are reading this message? Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28984