>Mfw I wasn't lucky enough to have lived and worked as an engineer in the 70s and 80s when electronics were changing dramatically
It always sounds to fascinating. I get jealous when the boomers start talking about what they did back in the day
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whats stopping you from doing the same now
In the 1920s, you had car engineer scenes. As in, you could be a Hispanic in Argentina, and you can meet with a guy to build you a car. You cannot do that now a days. And you certainty cannot do something similar with tech.
Sure there's always new stuff to push, but we got past the low hanging fruit of human development. Now it's gonna be niche stuff like "batteries are 5% more optimized"
you can still do that with airplanes.
>spic
>d-do I fit in yet g-g-guys???
Underage homosexual, please leave
its not only that there's low hanging fruit. The whole tree has been dragged down and will be chopped into pieces for wood. There's ai for crying out loud. Arduinos didn't always exist nor its modules. I've been to alogs.space and they haven't been able to figure out engineer's most guarded secret.
Do you want to know what that is?
Matlab simulink.
Its not that making a robot is not unrealistic. Nothing is. I could have decided to make a jet pack, I could have decided to make a guided missile, I could have decided to make a railgun, i could even make a makeshift vehicle. I just happen to have decided to make this.
It's all too complex. In the past you could just go "what if we do this thing?" and then you do the thing and it either works or fails.
Now you need an IQ of 140+ just to understand enough of a chip to suggest a meaningful thing to try, and you need a team of 100 people to implement and test the thing, and by the way every little thing costs millions of dollars to validate.
>what if we do this thing?
That's what genetic engineering is now. Get on the train.
ethics get in the way though
otherwise neural networks + genetic engineer is kino or something
>ethics
I think it's more just regs, but yeah, at the least you'd have to deal with people b***hing about GMO's.
It's no more complex than the 70s though.
Get an arduino and start.
>bbbbut it's not the most complex amd64 cpu waaaahhh
Average EE weren't using vector processors like CRAY were in the 70s either.
You can still do that. If you are autistic enough to want to make your own instructions set, get an fpga and try it out. It's never been easier to get your foot in the door
You can be a glass half-empty or a half-full guy. It may have been interesting to deal with doing anything useful with the first generation of pc hardware, but you would have had to deal with a lot of bs that became immediately useless. Now things have stabilized; you have powerful languages, lots of ram, incredibly powerful parallel hardware, the internet (instead of reading magazines). If you asked guys from that era if they would want to work with a machine from today, you would have to convince them that something like that was even possible, then the answer would be a hard yes.
If you want to play with architectures is correct. Otherwise try to figure out the future with the hardware and software of today; that is exactly what the guys in the 70's and 80's were doing and did.
The thing is, they now use telemetries and spy on you to prevent you from making the next big thing unless you've got money, you no longer own your PC.
You can still buy those electronics and work on them now.
who is that
Becky Blackbell.
>tfw when 3-dot menu has Search Google for this image functionality
You would've been too dumb to actually make anything.
This is the truest and most relatable thread on IQfy so far.
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>no "becky sexo" post
I guess I have to do it... Ahem:
BECKY SEXOOOOO