Re:SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite
by 127 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:31AM
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Given that I don't know anything about rocket engine technology; the CPU is essentially the same as it was 40 years ago. Yet the technology is used in radically different ways using much more optimal manufacturing technologies. It's still a bunch of transistors on silicon.
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Re:SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite
by dredmorbius on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:42AM
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Go watch the MOAD, and realise that most of what's changed is cost, scale, ubiquity, and speed.
That's pretty much the definition of incrementalism.
Yes, there've been a number of watershed transitions, but when you're increasing capability/cost by a factor of ten each decade, that's expected.