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Old 01-26-2005, 07:32 AM
pentoman pentoman is offline
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Originally Posted by MTI
More than a few years ago, Peter Egan wrote a piece in Road & Track about his 50th birthday party. ...[snip]... The moral of the story was that when computers and computerization fails, it's the equivalent of being trapped in a blizzard, you might as well take advantage of the break in time that it give you.
OK but on the other hand, if you break down outside of IBM or an internet cafe, maybe they'll be able to come out and get you going!

Instead of needing a toolbox, you just need a laptop.. and an internet connection to download the software (although maybe illegally)! Hell you will probably be able to connect to it with bluetooth and your mobile phone.. the latest ones are as powerful as an original Pentium computer. Anyone using this forum is probably computer literate enough to do computer diagnosis too...


Then of course, there will still be plenty of moving parts and stuff for us to fix. Maybe there won't be any real mechanics left and we'll all get paid handsomely for changing bushings and taking engines apart!
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