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I look around me and see that everything to which a power cord is attached has evolved enormously since his prediction or didn't exist at all. Yet the cord rema
by DonGateley 13y ago
I look around me and see that everything to which a power cord is attached has evolved enormously since his prediction or didn't exist at all. Yet the cord remains as it was a couple centuries ago.
This has always amazed me and as I look at the incredible rats nest of them around me I do hope for a breakthrough.
- ams6110 13y agoA lot of things haven't changed at all. Televisions (apart from the screen itself), most kitchen and household appliances, all almost exactly as they were 50 years ago.
- DonGateley 13y agoYou must live in a museum. :-)
- hatu 13y agoMaybe your oven has a touchscreen and apps on it but it basically still heats your food by converting electricity to heat.
- DonGateley 13y agoAnd people do seem to love to contradict and argue.
- icebraining 13y agoNope, mine uses electricity to radiate microwaves.
- theon144 13y agoWhich are by dielectric heating converted to heat...
- icebraining 13y agoWell, sure, if you want to heat something, you must create heat. That's a tautology. But it's not true that the appliance is almost exactly as it was, it just has the same goal.