Comments by "Steven Gill" (@stevengill1736) on "Asianometry"
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My good friend Scott had an older brother John, who worked for a SF bay area phone company for most of his life. I think when he started phone traffic still went through relays, although in the late 60s things were modernizing fast. He was a technician, so when they made the turnover to all-computet switched, routed and ring signal controlled, he was in his element. At that time unlike Scott (who became a renowned electronics engineer himself), I knew little about computers, but John was a good spokesperson, and his descriptions of the multitudinous snafus that came up as the phone company adapted to software driven communication were easily absorbed . Him and Scott already had a home computer (think 1975), and it was their influence, as well as my fathers that finally got me interested in the digital world. But I lost track of them, although I'll never forget the red boxes we had (red boxes just emitted the sounds of coins falling into a pay phone, unlike blue boxes which emitted routing and other control tones). Yup, a lot could be said about those phone phreak days...
But thank you for another interesting video - for some reason your videos often bring back fond memories [believe me, if I wasn't old and in the way I'd a joined your patreon long ago]
Cheers ..... ;^=[}
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My mom was treated with penicillin when it first came out, only to find that she was allergic. In those days of the late 40s antibiotic allergy was poorly understood, and she almost succumbed. I believe as antibiotic science progressed the allergenic factors were characterized and rates of allergic reactions went down, but apparently she was lucky to survive.
It looks like you looked up some antibiotic statistics Jon...I did a report on this subject recently, and the quantities produced and consumed are truly astronomical.
As you know they are produced in liquid culture which is filtered, leaving what's called the filter cake - this is high in nutritous materials and is added to animal feed - an excellent form of recycling - the problem (or advantage as the case may be) is that some antibiotic content in their feed can be growth promoting for the animals.
Note that there are far more deleterious drugs than antibiotics in waste water - hormones, antivirals, nonsteroidal antiinflammatories, even some heart meds can have all sorts of environmental effects - I suppose abtibiotics get singled out due to the quantities produced and the danger of antibiotic immunity. This will be a huge problem until we don't feed farm animals tons of the stuff....but if one wants to delve into the world of environmental contamination, OMG, it's a growing field!
Always great videos, thank you kindly....cheers.
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