LouderVol
Extra and Terrestrial
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tell me you don't know what you are talking about without telling me you don't know what you are talking about. seriously, you think we went directly from the room size ENIACs to hand held cell phones? how long was it "supposed" to take?Yes. Our sudden jumps into the early transistor tech, and subsequent miniaturization of device components, were indeed sudden, not incremental. So too, the circuit board supplanting vacuum tubes and bulky wiring in computers. Most of the alien tech remains held from the public for military reasons. However, very soon we will see fossil fuel free aircraft powered by magnetic induction utilizing the Earth's magnet field flight motion in any direction the pilots choose. Without the need for the need for gradual acceleration, and deceleration. All this stuff is the result of reverse engineering alien tech.
the vacuum tubes were the first, depending on when you want to say computers "started" vacuum tubes were employed from 1910 to about 1950. vacuum tubes allowed information to flow in "1D". in the late 1940s the first transistors came with "2D" layouts, they became commercially available in the 1950s. then from the 50s to the 60s you could get the first "integrated circuits" with multiple transistors combined together. then into the 70s was the first microprocessors which were essentially the first CPUs that we think of today. somewhere along the way they figured out how to use the middle state vs just "off" or "on", creating a "3D" way for information to be handled.
Moores law in the 60s stated we were going to be able to double the processing power of computers every 18 months. and I still think we are pretty much doing that. thats hardly being "sudden".
each one of those steps was either getting more processing power in the same area, or using less space for the same processing. eventually those efforts combined and you get more processing power in your pocket now than could fit in an entire room before.
and thats not unique to computing either, ever since the industrial revolution started we have been figuring out better ways to do the same thing. whether thats smaller, lighter, cheaper or faster. you could even think about even the extreme basics as a miniaturization. going from rocks to bronze allowed us to use less materials, that were stronger, and lighter. then from bronze to iron, and iron to steel, and steel to plastics. buildings its the same thing. we went from building everything out of stone and concrete to using lighter materials because we got smarter with material sciences and figured out better ways to do things.