06-16-2019, 06:01 PM | #91 |
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Re: Approaching TL9?
Thing is the networked age had already emerged in the 1980s - PCs, email, computer hacking, etc. The first big computer virus was in 1988. Most people weren't directly involved yet but that didn't mean the technology didn't exist. By comparison, TL 7 technically starts in 1940 but how common was TL 7 technology in the 1940s? 1980 seems as good a starting point as any.
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06-16-2019, 06:12 PM | #92 | |
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06-16-2019, 06:14 PM | #93 | |
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06-16-2019, 06:16 PM | #94 |
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Sure, but the social transformation really wasn't that notable until the 90s.
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06-16-2019, 06:27 PM | #95 | |
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We got our first computer in late 1997 after the internet had become such an obvious thing that we wanted access but inwe paid 10x as much in 2019 dollars as we did for a vastly superior model 1 year ago. Then there's the differences between dial-up and highspeed connections. I really wouldn't mind having a TL boundary between then and now.
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06-16-2019, 08:06 PM | #96 | |
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06-16-2019, 08:31 PM | #97 |
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Re: Approaching TL9?
What in the world does velcro have to do with Bionics?!! Besides, everyone knows that Vulcans invented velcro! LOL.
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06-16-2019, 11:17 PM | #98 |
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I'm reminded of jet aircraft, which were around in experimental use from 1939 and military use from 1944, yet didn't have any effect on civilian life until the introduction of the de Havilland Comet in 1952.
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06-16-2019, 11:26 PM | #99 | |
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The idea that it is primarily about prosthetics is incorrect, but bionic prosthetics are a thing: duplicating the function of the body parts they replace as closely as possible.
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06-17-2019, 04:19 AM | #100 | |
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"By 1977, a liquid crystal display calculator known as the Teal LC811 sold regularly for $24.95, with a sale price of $19.95. By 1985, the solar-powered Sharp EL-345 sold for $5.95. Both of these calculators were made in Japan. The Sharp not only carried out arithmetic and found percentages, but had a square root key. Both calculators had limited memory for results of computations." ( Electronic Calculators—Handheld ) So there were really cheap calculators in the late 1970s and "dirt" cheap ones by the 1980s. Last edited by maximara; 06-17-2019 at 04:22 AM. |
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