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minus-squaredarkdemize@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoAnd now I have a phone capable of taking photos too large to be stored on that drive. Crazy how quickly technology can progress.
minus-squaremerde alors@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days ago Crazy how quickly technology can progress. 70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for “technology”
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoOnly 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.
And now I have a phone capable of taking photos too large to be stored on that drive. Crazy how quickly technology can progress.
70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for “technology”
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.