My GPU has 45 billion transistors in it.
Like, we have this magic rock that we carved 45,000,000,000 miniature switches on it to create images of worlds that do not exist on a screen.
We really, really not appreciate enough how insanely magical technology is.
Like, we have this magic rock that we carved 45,000,000,000 miniature switches on it to create images of worlds that do not exist on a screen.
We really, really not appreciate enough how insanely magical technology is.
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Think of like a Bond film or something depicting a supercomputer, now add all other computers at the time and your current phone likely blows them all away
I went and read about it and was like ‘this is made up, the guys who make these things are secret wizards or something’
This was the first disconnection made to our own bodies and minds. And as years progressed, we bonded with machinery and software. we stopped evolving our self. Spiritually, psychically, mentally.
Even people learning for IT now will not make it to their pensions with it. Look now and 30 years future.
This is the Twilight Zone in the making.
-Arthur C. Clarke.
Someone from the 15th century would call it witchcraft.
Advanced technology is only mistaken for magic by people with no frame of reference.
The magic never stops.
Now I can start my car with my phone? Whaaaat? 😆
But it is a tool for the rich to control the masses, so how do we invert that?
The data centres you celebrate each burn more energy than a town
Not enough people appreciate the mind-boggling nature of the technology that we use
🎶 They're in the air and everywhere! 🎶
This makes it a clever demon. It can write and draw.
Science = magic, indeed.
When my daughter complains that the computer is slow, I find it really funny.
Arthur C Clarke
Realtime video calls for pennies, halfway around the planet, on a mobile phone. We do live in the future.
My mom's first job was as a switch board operator, you know, an operator.
Switches.
Yeah... but they didn't call them route board operators, though router would have been more technically accurate, as she merely closed circuits on the switch board to provide appropriate route to a phone.
The entire telephone network is what I would call layer 2.
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Thanks amigo. You'd be surprised by my background. Suffice it to say, the Dude was aware, as he is running Qubes OS.
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Like it's nothing.
Trust me, I understand the process just fine. No need to explain it.
The entire point of the OP though is to take that step back and look at it from the broad perspective of "We've essentially created magic mirrors/balls/portals/seeing stones etc."
This is a result of the Human Colossus, one of my favorite concepts
https://www.lifestyleupdated.com/2017/11/20/concept-human-colossus/
When I was born the first microprocessor didn’t exist. When my daughters were learning to speak I got to watch the joy on their faces when they first spoke to the house and got it to switch the lights on for them.
life, I still can’t wrap my head round the sheer amount of computing power in a 1970s CPU like a Z80 or 6502 it is objectively astonishing. I currently work on IBM Z servers and have to just not think about how much compute is available compared to ~40 years ago.
Now everyone has that in their pockets and it's way smaller than a book.
And it does porn!
like…you’re telling me we can make microchips with mere-nanometers precision….
we are dictating the placement of individual ATOMS here
I'll find something appropriate to quote Adams in response too, to make it up to him..
I imagine if you had a time machine and went back in time and showed Von Neumann our current computers he'd just be like, "Yup, seems right to me".
I’m 10 years away from retirement and now I want to pick everyone’s brain.
The system could read the clicks of your phone and close relays to connect a call.
I did signals work on transitioning 5 1/4 to intro 3 1/2 disk drives, and lots of SCSI stuff, Seagate, Maxtor and MaxOptix, Quantum (Empire 1GB), Kalok; Adaptec, HP and other analyzers. Great teams, great tech; it was a blast.
Cheers!
The advancements of this sector of technology has been nothing short of incredible
Seconded the fact we don’t appreciate how mind boggingly cool technology is and also how we use it in the silliest of ways.
But seeing actors pores isn’t always pretty.
And that's how I got started in electronics theory and repair
If you hook them up wrong such that the smoke gets out, they don't work anymore...
https://bsky.app/profile/sneptech.bsky.social/post/3lag7eaql5q2z