• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I find this about a lot of old tech. Like precisely etching a piece of vinyl in such a way that it vibrates just right to get the music you want vs bouncing a laser off a reflective disc to read a bunch of 0s and 1s.

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      We went from the end-product achieving something through great complexity, to the end-product being made with great complexity so it could active something simply.