When I was a kid thermionic vacuum tubes were still king and the only semiconductors of note were point contact diodes (OA91, etc.) and junction transistors suc

When I was a kid thermionic vacuum tubes were still king and the only semiconductors of note were point contact diodes (OA91, etc.) and junction transistors such as the OC71 and OC44 — go look their specs up! In chemistry, GC–MS was still a dream. If you'd even hinted to those in the know that something like an Intel i9 or an AMD Ryzen would become the norm within the lifetime of someone living at the time they'd have said you'd lost your marbles and probably suggested you were suffering from delusions. Fact is you've seen nothing yet, in 50/60 years time the electronics/industrial/biochemical worlds will be unrecognizable. I wonder how old you are.