Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology" video.

  1.  @eldonjanzen9822  False advertising is as old as advertising, even in antiquity there were snake oil salesmen who would claim that there elixirs could cure any ailment.
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  2. Depends where the documentary is from.
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  3. With a name like sid Snot surely you would call them valves, no?
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  4. I would say we are in the second century of the electric age as people have been meddling with it for around 200 years now, 250 if you count Benjamin Franklin and his kite.
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  5. Quantum computers can't do what binary computers do so the transistor will always be here.
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  6. In the UK we called them "trannys" and at one point every teenage boy had one in his pocket, today that word is a derogatory term for a transexual.
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  7. Machines will be looking back and laughing at how easy we were to destroy.
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  8. Hurdy Gurdyson and Gurdy Hurdyson won the big pile of berries for jointly inventing the wheel at Cave Labs.
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  9.  @sbalogh53  He's a misogynistic troll, hardly someone I would call a snowflake...
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