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The same thing that happens with every level of technology that eventually becomes ubiquitous enough to be considered a household appliance. How many people und
by vunderba 2y ago
The same thing that happens with every level of technology that eventually becomes ubiquitous enough to be considered a household appliance. How many people understand the internal workings of a combustion engine, how a telephone works, or how a microwave heats up their food?
Here's what happens, society chugs along just fine until a catastrophic event like an EMP which effectively drops them back into the Stone Age, except even worse because many people have jobs with skill sets that don't really serve a purpose outside of the modern capitalistic economy.
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- anonzzzies 2y agoNot many understand but they should try. It is very fulfilling to build an engine (start with an electric motor; it’s trivial but still fulfilling). It is very fulfilling to build a computer out of basic logic gates. Or a radio out of some crap that’s definitely laying around in your house. You are missing out not doing that; things seem like magic until you do them. Sure building a processor yourself won’t have all the branch prediction and etc as your intel/m* has, but at least you understand how it could work. Same for gpus ; you won’t be making anything close to what the state of the art is, but you’ll understand how it gets there.
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