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Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 185 points 4 days ago (7 children)

If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined... for radios.

Our modern economy couldn't exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn't get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can't rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I'm afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Two inventions:

Internet
Computers

are independent of each other, but go together nicely.

You could have an internet (sort of) without computers. Consider Teletypers, FM Radio broadcasts, or Telephone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

an internet (sort of) without computers.

Really? You mean like the ... telephone network?

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