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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by laichzeit0 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:05PM (#28293391)
To put it in perspective, 50 years is still less time than from now until when the transistor was invented.
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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by eigen on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:16PM (#28296180)
Here in 2021 it has been well over 50 years since the first transistor was built.

> The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs. The three shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor

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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by williadc on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:15PM (#28296163)
The transistor was invented in 1947/48, over 70 years ago.

Source: https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/transist.htm

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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by JohnWhigham on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:35PM (#28294647)
Yup. This whole era from WW2 onwards (the 3rd/4th Industrial Revolution?) will be looked at as covering 1950 to probably the mid 21st century hundreds of years from now.
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