Well, that's a comforting thought, I hope it goes that way.

On 01/19/2023 06:10 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther@makerlisp.com 
> <mailto:luther@makerlisp.com>> wrote:
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>     Computers that are not smart phone-like are definitely on the
>     endangered
>     species list. You know, the kind on  a desk, with  a keyboard ...
>
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> I don't have statistics for this, but I doubt it.  Consider amateur 
> radio, which has been around for a century now.  Amateur stations are 
> an ever-shrinking *fraction* of all transmitters, to say nothing of 
> receivers, but in absolute terms there are now more than 2 million 
> hams in the world, which is almost certainly more than ever.