Just 75 years after Thomas Watson said that, we were already doing EUV lithography, a process whose description and commercial incentives would have been totall

Just 75 years after Thomas Watson said that, we were already doing EUV lithography, a process whose description and commercial incentives would have been totally incomprehensible to him: "In our laser-produced plasma (LPP) source, molten tin droplets of around 25 microns in diameter are ejected from a generator at 70 meters per second. As they fall, the droplets are hit first by a low-intensity laser pulse that flattens them into a pancake shape. Then a more powerful laser pulse vaporizes the flattened droplet to create a plasma that emits EUV light. To produce enough light to manufacture microchips, this process is repeated 50,000 times every second." https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/light-and-lasers https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/li... Transistors, microchips and lasers were not invented yet in 1943. How would one even guess that it could soon be a viable business to build a giant machine that shoots molten tin droplets at 50,000 Hz to produce a particular bandwidth of light so that you could create billions of tiny computers out of sand? Hopefully fusion is on a similar path where the description of 2100's commercial reactor will sound similarly incomprehensible to us.