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The article's list of technologies, at first glance, seems like it has examples from different technologies. But they are all really the latest pieces of the sa

The article's list of technologies, at first glance, seems like it has examples from different technologies. But they are all really the latest pieces of the same line of technology: Personal Computing/Internet. The author (and I'm assuming a lot of people on HN, myself included) came up when the Internet and Personal Computing was growing. The next technology that people are excited about probably isn't the latest in Personal Computing/Internet, it's something else altogether. I'm in the same bubble you guys are, so I'm not sure what that is. Maybe it's Energy (lots of Solid Hydrogen articles and/or Clean Energy). Maybe it's something else altogether...

georgeecollins 4y ago
Personal Computing / Internet is really just the latest piece of a technology called electricity.
- cduzz 4y ago
  Actually it's lithograph and electricity. Without lithography electricity is just a compact steam engine/gas lamp.
  - hateful 4y ago
    yes, we've just moved the fire very far away. "And if you were alive around the year 1900, you’d probably equate modern tech with electricity, much the way we today equate modern tech with computers, smart phones and the internet. Edison and Tesla were their Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The idea of powering transportation with a fiery engine dated back to the earliest locomotives almost 100 years earlier, which would seem about as modern to a person in 1900 as black-and-white silent films seem to us today. By 1900, you weren’t supposed to have to deal with how the energy sausage is really made anymore—the burning fire happened in some remote generator now, allowing consumers to only have to interact with the silent, clean, convenient magical butler—electricity." https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li...
  - perilunar 4y ago
    Not really. Telephones, radio, radar, x-ray machines etc. all predate ICs by decades. You don't need lithography to make relays or vacuum tubes.

georgeecollins 4y ago

Personal Computing / Internet is really just the latest piece of a technology called electricity.

cduzz 4y ago
Actually it's lithograph and electricity. Without lithography electricity is just a compact steam engine/gas lamp.
- hateful 4y ago
  yes, we've just moved the fire very far away. "And if you were alive around the year 1900, you’d probably equate modern tech with electricity, much the way we today equate modern tech with computers, smart phones and the internet. Edison and Tesla were their Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The idea of powering transportation with a fiery engine dated back to the earliest locomotives almost 100 years earlier, which would seem about as modern to a person in 1900 as black-and-white silent films seem to us today. By 1900, you weren’t supposed to have to deal with how the energy sausage is really made anymore—the burning fire happened in some remote generator now, allowing consumers to only have to interact with the silent, clean, convenient magical butler—electricity." https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li...
- perilunar 4y ago
  Not really. Telephones, radio, radar, x-ray machines etc. all predate ICs by decades. You don't need lithography to make relays or vacuum tubes.