One of the things that I have thought in the past, and have seen echoed over and over again is about electronic components that will go bad on modern vehicles and that will keep the vehicles from ever being around in 50/75 years.
One of the things that really amazes me is the knowledge that younger people have about electronics. In all reality, these computer controls are not that complicated if you break them down, and chances are, they will be reproduced. I some cases, they could be done by high school students in a electronics class. I never knew some things existed until the internet came around. Some things I thought were so amazing are relatively ho-hum to me now.
Just an example...
While looking online for a electric pop-up fertilizer system, I found a video of a young kid(probably college age, or high school) who had made a liquid rate controller from scratch and wrote the computer code to control it. 25 years ago, you wouldn't see that outside of MIT or CMU. Now, it is just some kid playing in his basement. The technology now is such that it makes older technology seem so trivial. The technology to build such electronic components increases every day.
It used to be that I and a handful of others could go to radio shack(back when they actually sold ham radio stuff) and rummage through the bins and bins of components and grab some circuit boards and create my own circuits. (I also used to remember what the stripes on the diodes meant from memory) Now, Radio Shack is dead. Digi-Key is my answer now, but in some cases, half the stuff in the book goes over my head, and finding what I need is getting harder because it is buried in things that are way better now.
Basically, I think that hobbyists and fanatics alike will keep the electronics alive as things age. It might be in someone's basement, but, it will happen.
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