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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children) Crazy how quickly technology can progress. 70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for "technology" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change. (If I mix this up, someone correct me.) I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago that's why i put "technology" in quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 point 1 year ago I mean, yeah, that's what he was getting at. How 70 years seems like a long time in the context of modern technology despite being very short in the sense of human history. permalink fedilink source parent [–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago It is nowadays, and it is in RF and digital electronics, but that's far from universal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change. (If I mix this up, someone correct me.) I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago that's why i put "technology" in quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago that's why i put "technology" in quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 point 1 year ago I mean, yeah, that's what he was getting at. How 70 years seems like a long time in the context of modern technology despite being very short in the sense of human history. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago It is nowadays, and it is in RF and digital electronics, but that's far from universal. permalink fedilink source parent
