Conversation
Notices
-
Embed this notice
I hear a lot about how the competency crisis is getting worse in the tech industry and that this is cause for alarm, but I was reading about what a "gamma knife" is and how it operates and i'm really thinking that we're actually not that many shitty, intellectually disinterested generations away from from just not having any understanding of complex medicine.
-
Embed this notice
https://archive.org/details/classicalelectro0000jack_e8g9/page/n2/mode/1up
-
Embed this notice
@Elliptica @Titanbreakerkun @dickflatteningenthusiast >the basic principles of how most things work is written down
oh baby, wait till entire fields of research are lost to digital media rot
-
Embed this notice
@grey @Titanbreakerkun @dickflatteningenthusiast My background is in physics, so what I'm saying here might not be universal, but I think it could be... anyway most of the text books you use, even up to graduate school, were written sometime in the 60's or earlier, and have very minor edition changes. Classical Electrodynamics, the standard text on E&M topics, was written in 62, and has only three editions, the last in 99. Maybe we'll get to a point where even these texts are impossible to find, but I doubt it. I think it would take something really big to erase everything we've learned. Now if we are still smart enough to understand it in the future is a more realistic question. Knowing how a specifically radio telescope built in the 60's works if you have no instructions or people with experience? Even more likely.
-
Embed this notice
@Titanbreakerkun @dickflatteningenthusiast According to the Moon landing believers, we've already lost all the magic technology and radiation shielding that was used to go to the moon in the 60s. So we'd be overdue for more advanced technology from the 1960s fading away.
-
Embed this notice
@grey @Titanbreakerkun @dickflatteningenthusiast America forgot how to make a key ingredient for nuclear weapons (fogbank), and went absolutely nuts trying to reverse engineer it.
Maybe things won't be as bad as people imagine, in that the basic principles of how most things work is written down, but the problem is the more nuanced parts of how old tech actually works or how it was built will be lost, meaning that every few generations we're going to need to throw a lot of lot of stuff and start over. When we get sufficiently advanced, I wonder if that will lead to a stagnation, basically constantly reinventing the same tech with the same level of performance over and over.
-
Embed this notice
@dickflatteningenthusiast "Gamma Knife is a type of stereotactic radiosurgery used to treat brain tumors and other brain conditions by delivering high-intensity gamma radiation precisely to the target area, minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue. It was invented in 1967 and is known for being a less invasive alternative to traditional surgery."
1967 tech will be lost :pepe_cry:
-
Embed this notice
What if I open it while playing Iron Man backwards? 😏
-
Embed this notice
@Humpleupagus @Titanbreakerkun @dickflatteningenthusiast @grey That's the book. It's like the Necronomicon, don't open it, something bad will happen.
dick flattening enthusiast
?? Humpleupagus ??
『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️
Anime Wong
Titanbreaker-kun
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the