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Like transistors? You must — you’re using a few million (or billion) right now just reading that sentence. But it’s actually difficult to overstate the transistor’s importance since its invention precisely 60 years ago today by super nerd gods John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley — everything changed when solid state circuits were finally able to replace mechanical relays and vacuum tubes. There’s little doubt electronics and technology as we know it today are only possible considering

of that fundamental discovery, although 60 years on we can only seem to navel gaze about what sorts of real jobs we’d all have whether we weren’t just spending our days obsessing about the gadgets these transistors potential.

 

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Original post by Ryan Block