10 Dec
2014
10 Dec
'14
5:17 p.m.
On 2014-Dec-10, at 3:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12/10/2014 01:29 PM, Roy Hirst wrote:
" I just want to say one word to you .. plastics "
I just realized I am the same age as the
transistor (though it in fact
got smaller as it got older, and I did not).
Does anyone know please of a forum (this one?) with interest in
disruptive technology, i.e. components or processes that quickly changed
the gameplan?
Hey, old timeer! You were born in 1925? Congratulations on your upcoming 90th!
To my mind, the most disruptive technology involved materials and methods more than
anything. Where would we be without, say, zone refining or epoxy
(almost as old as the transistor) or plastics? Optics certainly played a part in
photolith processes.
So-called "disruptive" technology in computing mostly happened because of
improved materials and methods to manipulate them.
So, I look at, say, graphene as potentially a very
disruptive technology.
--Chuck