" He'd earlier, in 1990, made an even more telling piece, "A Thousand Years.

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What if it was possible to break a complex piece of machinery into a thousand pieces and then, at some predetermined moment, have the machine put itself back together again?

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The area in question could accommodate several thousand transistors, so it would be possible to make a simple piece of electronic equipment and keep it very cold indeed.

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