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Being a "phone" isn't even the primary function of the modern cell phone

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The only part of a snartphone that is fundamentally new to someone from the 20s is computerisation and the internet.

A computer is fairly easy to explain on a basic level. Its a complicated machine using lots of very small switches to turn an input into an output. The rest is minaturisation and adding more and more little switches, the scale of which is literally the only hard thing to imagine.

The internet is also fsirly easy to explain fundamentally. Its a telegraphy network with the telegraphist replaced with a computer. The scale and impact it has on our lifes is the mind-blowing part, the actual "physical" aspect is just a new iteration and improvement of existing technology.

Truly revolutionary and mind-blowing to people were the discovery and utilisation of the EM spectrum, or radiation, electricity, relativity, the atomic model, the end of the heliocentric/geocentric models, or that the earth is round.

Its the difference between engineering revolutions, and "theoretical" science revolutions that fundamentally change our understanding of the universe, not just the way we interact with it.

Frick you longpost

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the only thing that's new is everything that matters.

good point.

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I don't have enough spoons to read this shit

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