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Originally Posted by kacir
I have been thinking about it.
A good tool is a lifetime investment. I still have some tools from my grandfather.
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Heh. I have vague memories from my rugrat days of my grandfather's toolkit. (He was a carpenter.)
He had stuff I've never seen again and a few I have:
http://www.oldtools.co.uk/tools/copy...on_Plane_.html
Never got to "play" with them, though.
It is interesting to ponder how the modern consumer society has evolved some extremely sophisticated devices (cellphones, calculators, etc) into disposable device territory. Stuff so cheap and readily available we barely appreciate their inherent value. Like, what would Newton have achieved if he had run into a solar-powered calculator like the ones that line drugstore checkouts in blister packs?
I expect eink readers to get there eventually.
Possibly sooner than we might guess.
(Though not this year. )