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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•13 days agoAnd now I have a phone capable of taking photos too large to be stored on that drive. Crazy how quickly technology can progress.
minus-squaremerde alorslinkfedilink5•13 days ago Crazy how quickly technology can progress. 70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for “technology”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•13 days agoOnly recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change. (If I mix this up, someone correct me.) I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoI mean, yeah, that’s what he was getting at. How 70 years seems like a long time in the context of modern technology despite being very short in the sense of human history.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoIt is nowadays, and it is in RF and digital electronics, but that’s far from universal.
And now I have a phone capable of taking photos too large to be stored on that drive. Crazy how quickly technology can progress.
70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for “technology”
Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change.
(If I mix this up, someone correct me.)
I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.
that’s why i put “technology” in quotation marks.
I mean, yeah, that’s what he was getting at. How 70 years seems like a long time in the context of modern technology despite being very short in the sense of human history.
It is nowadays, and it is in RF and digital electronics, but that’s far from universal.