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Great article. Learned something new. The satellites were larger than I thought. Coincidentally, randomly the other day, I thought how much more advanced our c
by iJohnDoe 4y ago
Great article. Learned something new. The satellites were larger than I thought.
Coincidentally, randomly the other day, I thought how much more advanced our computing would be today as a species if we worked within the constraints of the computing of available at the time of Voyager or even the 90s.
I think we would favor information and communication vs. cruft and entertainment. Working within constrained computing environments forces us to make tough decisions about what is important or pushes us to innovate and be creative with what we have to work with.
- pvg 4y agoOur 'computing' is many orders magnitude more 'advanced' than what was available at the time. There's no technology that's advanced faster in the history of technology, a completely unprecedented rate of innovation even in the industrial era. It would be very odd indeed if it somehow became more advanced by not advancing it.