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[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And now I have a phone capable of taking photos too large to be stored on that drive. Crazy how quickly technology can progress.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Crazy how quickly technology can progress.

70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for "technology"

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

It is nowadays, and it is in RF and digital electronics, but that's far from universal.

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

that's why i put "technology" in quotation marks.