17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On 15 Aug 96 01:31:08 -0800, null@void.com wrote:
"In the 22 Jul 1996 issue of Fortune was an interesting look into the future of automobile electronics, "Soon Your Dashboard Will Do Everything (Except Steer)". " From the control center, they can "electronically reach into the car" to unlock the doors, or honk the horn and flash its lights."
It is extremely comforting to me -- I don't know about you -- to think that GM will maintain a control center able to communicate with my auto
electronics. Shit, why not TRW?
Why, when I read this, do I keep getting flashes of Kirk&Co hacking into Kahn's Shipboard Computers to get it to drop the Ship's shields <g>?