one problem I have with a lot of so-called tech enthusiasts is that they do not sufficiently respect old technology. the people of the past were clever!
but old technology doesn't *feel* as efficient to them, making it, to them, useless is it incredibly fucking foolish? obviously, but... anyway, carrier pigeons are cool and, as you said, we should get more
No respect for old technology? They don't respect new technology! The amount of power modern devices have and how bloated the software they run is blows my mind every day. Optimization seems practically dead as a concept.
The late data management expert Jon Toigo used to mention this in his seminars.
I will continue to scream for my 3.5 mm headphone jacks.
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” - Andrew Tanenbaum what-if.xkcd.com/31/
brb, buying a pigeon to bring this post to the waiter who told me to scan a QR code instead of taking five steps so he could hand me a menu
anyway I think data transfer by pigeon is an idea we should revive if only because it’s fuckin cool
Newspapers in the days of metal printing could turn around a new front page with a fresh article often in under an hour from typesetting it to getting it out to a newsstand or newsboys. Blogging! Of course this involved hundreds of people.