Fueling without cam sensors

[pekingduck]

Not suggesting the immediate demise of the [woefully antiquated] internal combustion engine, but the discussion of cam synchronization, maximum efficiency tweaks and so on - I wonder if analog discussions were going on during the final years of the stream-driven locomotive? We are likely living the era of the best known methods to squeeze every joule of energy out of every drop of dino. This could go on for awhile, but sadly it will eventually be dust in the wind and displays in museums and retro restaurants.

We will be the dust in the wind, and school kids will be tele-ported to the i-phone museum, to see what communications was like before microchips were embedded in their brains......