![]() ![]() The graphs you see in this piece indicate what investigators or intelligence agents would call a "pattern break," an indication that something fundamental had changed, something that the target was trying to conceal. Braintree didn't get cable TV until 1984. We had a couple AM radios and we also had a phonograph player that was more a piece of furniture than a piece of electronic equipment. When I was very young we had a vacuum-tube, black and white TV set that only got VHF stations. Any engineer will tell you there's a chasm between concept and application. Younger people have no concept of how radical and extreme the changes have been in our technology. But older people, particularly those who were adults during World War Two, certainly noticed how things seemed to change almost overnight.īut even so, it took a long time for the ideas that were being explored in the 50s and 60s in places like Bell Labs and Xerox's PARC to come to market. And oddly enough, both breakthroughs would share links with the year 1947 and with the legendary Bell Laboratories. The laser has also played an outsized role in the technological revolution of the 20th Century. It's why the first calculator was the size of a house and today you can get a much better one built into a pen. We take it for granted today but before solid state technology everything - radio, TV, even computers - needed to be powered by hot, heavy vacuum tubes. ![]() So many of the breakthroughs that have been made through all fields of science and technology have come about through the computer revolution, a revolution that would have been impossible without a single piece of technology: the simple transistor. ![]() Even Moore's Law is being called into question now. It's even more true today and yet the innovation machine seems to be sputtering to a slow march these days. To be sure, there were a lot of very great (and very well-educated) scientists working for a lot of very big (and very well-appointed) laboratories and companies. ![]()
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