Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.

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    11 months ago

    In Electronics world? Bipolar junctionTransistors. Easily.

    This led into having portable devices we have today.

    Back then people used vacuum tubes for switching and amplification; of which were very expensive to run (used a lot of power when idle).

    I mean, vacuum tubes where phenomenal when they came, allowed first long distance calls in 1915, but look at my phone now, fits on my hands, and has billions of transistors!

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      11 months ago

      Its crazy that we’re now approaching 200 million transistors in a single square millimetre. Boggles the mind.