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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Craftsmanship is dying
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.153410.19274@uwm.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:34:10 GMT
- References: <MOTOYAMA.92Aug11183427@harlgw92.harl.hitachi>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <MOTOYAMA.92Aug11183427@harlgw92.harl.hitachi> motoyama@harl.hitachi (Hiroshi Motoyama) writes:
- >However, I am very happy with looking at a silver plated logarithmic
- >variable capacitor driven by sophisticated gears, hand wound OSC coils on
- >white ceramic bobbins. Yes, all of those things are obsolete today when
- >craftsmanship in electronics is dying, or at least, getting invisible.
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- Craftmanship is in human nature. That's why it will come back.
-
- Therefore the following scenario is inevitable: chip manufacturing facilities
- converted to public utilities along the same lines as water, gas, and
- electricity, maybe under regulated private ownership. The basic costs are
- supported in the public sector, and (affordable) user fees are charged for
- those who want to make one or a whole batch of new chips.
-
- Chip designing systems are made freely available, chip manufacture orders
- can be placed over telecommunications networks.
-