The Transistor: from 1953
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Re: The Transistor: from 1953
by Casey Jones Wed May 03, 2023 1:06 am
Lummy wrote:
Seventy years ago.
THIRTY years after that, the Bell System itself was dismembered. Western Electric Labs were transferred and finally closed. Bell no longer made phones - third-world nations did, and now China. Who would employ such pioneers, now?
What, Meta? To Hoover up data and create the Metaverse?
To make more and more-intrusive iPhones? iThink not.
Every one of those predictions came true, to the tenth power; and except for the basic aids in communication...they ALL made our life WORSE.
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