technolgy: Is a picture worth 001111101000 words?
- 08/28/14 11:03 PM
Nearly all of our amazing modern technology is based on the most rudimentary premise imaginable: A switch is either “on” or “off” An electrical pulse is either present or not. The status of the charge is generally assigned a value. No charge is a “zero.” If a pulse is present it is a “one.” Engineers translated successions of zeroes and ones into binary code For example, the decimal number 1000 is 001111101000 in binary! At first, eight bits of code were processed simultaneously. The typical CPU now processes 64 bits of code on each cycle. So what does all of this have … (22 comments)
technolgy: I wonder where technology will be fifty years from now.
- 08/02/12 10:01 PM
I am a child of the fifties. One of the millions “baby-boomers” spawned in peace-time America after the conclusion of World War II. To say that life was different back then is an understatement. While we had plenty to eat and drink and clothes to wear, technology was only beginning to play an important role in the quality of our lives. Television was in its infancy. We watched Lucy and Ricky and Ozzie and Harriet on their first run. The TV was black and white and the picture occasionally flipped and flopped but it was a miracle to have celebrities in … (24 comments)
technolgy: I’m a Twentieth Century Man lost in the Twenty-first! And I feel out of place.
- 09/15/11 01:17 AM
When I was a very small boy, I remember the last steam engines belching fire and smoke on the tracks near our house as they made their final departures to the scrap yards. I remember going outside to see the “Echo” satellite, the first launched by the United States and was actually quite disappointed to only see a bright dot slowly trek across the night sky. Our black and white television got only three channels. There were no video recorders, microwaves, or personal computers. We walked to school, and stopped at the library often to search the stacks for books to … (17 comments)
Nearly all of our amazing modern technology is based on the most rudimentary premise imaginable:
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