I am going to list the ones that have affected my life or I think are significant and I am talking about the perfection of these things that made them available for the masses. Portable music players (walkmans, disc players, digital music players) VCR Microwaves Athletic Shoes as casual shoes Remote Controls for TV's Electric vehicles Cable TV Compact disks
To this day and hundreds hours watching/reading yt vids/wikis, I still don't know how a transistor works and how they're made. Just seems like magical technobabble. Well u see, we have a concept of electrical gates. You know, like the stuff in HS physics. We used to have vaccum tubes to make those electrical gates in computers. If we used vacuum tubes for your phone, it'd be the size of Washington Monument! So we turned those vaccuum tubes into a mosfet and the mosfet goes on silicon and is etched and bathed in acid. Now we got lasers to stack millions of them with the length of 16 silicon atoms! Isn't that cool?? They're just mini gates and circuits of 1s and 0s that we shrunk again and again with Moore's Law. Yeah!!!
Cell phones. Smart phones even more, incredible what they can do. It was the stuff of my childhood sci fi shows.
When did the Northern South Americans realize that chewing the leaves was cool, but soaking it in a bunch of chemicals to concentrate a powder was ever cooler?
I'm able to repair electronics and troubleshoot board level components when the size is within reason (like I've repaired monitor circuit boards/digital power amps etc), and understand the process..., but I think making them/concept of the ideas that went into creating them - especially to where they're at now and the speed they've progressed at is insane.
Duh! Just shows you how ubiquitous the internet now is, I still remember the 1st time I actually had access full time. Amazing.
