• 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I always like the comparisons to how magical our world would seem to someone in an alternate reality where transistors or maybe even electricity wasn’t a thing.

    Like you can dumb it down to really magical sounding things like calling a cpu “runes etched in sand”.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        The first hard part is understanding what electricity is. The second hard part is not getting murdered over it. For most of history, only the rich and powerful could pursue science.