PanAm sold tickets to the Moon in the sixties. https://twitter.com/adambain/status/1188866033811111936 …pic.twitter.com/18VDVCTC0N
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I've had arguments about whether Moore's Law is functionally over with people who later out themselves as still using a 2015 MacBook pro because they like the keyboard and ports better. It's a wonderful feeling, the feeling of victory
No tech person who had the money used a 1998 laptop in 2002. It felt like using an abacus. But now I find myself hoarding precious old devices (2015 macbook pro, iPhone SE) because they are better than the stuff that came after.
The BBC made a documentary, in part about that very trend line, all the way back in 1969 as the 747 was entering service. Worth watching with 50 years' hindsight - https://www.strategicreading.uk/2019/04/jumbo/
And there are other less obvious trends - the insurance guy in that documentary expects a few 747s to crash before the normality of that scale of disaster is internalised: the move away from expecting disaster as a by-product of innovation may also carry over to the digital world
It's really interesting to me that we've had massive increases in aero engineering technology, including the ability to design an entire new aircraft in CAD and simulate it virtually without any physical prototyping... and it doesn't seem to have improved things much
Anyone who has taken a differential equations course knows that all exponential curves are actually sinusoids in disguise. If you're taken a few more courses, the deep reasons behind this might delight you.
These sorts of articles make me so sad because today's kids will likely never experience anything like the emulator boom of the last 90s. Virtually every video game ever made, suddenly available in more-or-less accurate form on a modest computer.
I feel like this about 5G too
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