Hi, I was not making that assumption or making that claim about film and batteries, and I'm not making anti-digital arguments. You're putting words into my mouth.
When was the last time you were in a 3rd world country? No need for infrastructure to support a laptop? You make me laugh! -- Cheers, Bob Thursday, January 29, 2004, 6:50:11 PM, you wrote: > That makes the rather silly assumption that they would have to go through all > the steps it took to invent the technology to implement the technology today. > What you are saying is they would have to use film because they could not afford > the batteries for a digital camera. I say, If they could not afford batteries, > they could not afford film. You may need a lot of infrastructure to support a > 1950's mainframe, but you need none to support a modern laptop. > I am at least as retro as anyone on this list, but even I find some of these > anti-digital arguments specious. > Bob W wrote: >> >> a country needs a whole lot of other infrastructure in place to support >> computers. You can get a traditional photography business going >> without electricity if you really want to. That's what happened in >> Europe. >>
