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Conversely, the original IBM PC was closer in time to WWII than to now. And the discovery of quantum mechanics was closer to the war of 1812 than to now.
by perl4ever 6y ago
Conversely, the original IBM PC was closer in time to WWII than to now.
And the discovery of quantum mechanics was closer to the war of 1812 than to now.
- redis_mlc 6y agoAnd it's been almost 100 years since the first patent (1934) on maglev trains, as built in 2002 in Shangai. That's why lay people wonder about not seeing scientific progress since the 70s or 80s - it seems like decades since giant steps were made. But incremental progress adds up, too. One day we'll merge all those low-temperature superconductor or graphene experiments into something bigger. And there's been a bunch of nice proofs coming from random places annually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#First_maglev_patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#First_maglev_patent