1/3 Carver Mead teaches a packed audience @Caltech a lesson: technology development is highly dependent on societal need. Cell phone evolved from vacuum tubes via the need for radar in WW2pic.twitter.com/irPjRMW67N
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2/3 Pushing the same technology (described by Moore’s Law) for ~70 years turned out to be more efficient than any “fancy stuff”
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3/3 His recount is as fascinating as it is daunting as I do want to change the way we manufacture devices, by using potentially more sustainable and powerful self-assembly (“fancy stuff”). This may need a large government initiative as it does not fulfill a new demand. Yet.
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Carver showed one of the first portable “crystal” radios. Amazingly unlike current technologies it does not require any batteries as it gets all its power from the antenna (although you need to be closes to the radio tower)pic.twitter.com/swoJwtqmli
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