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Originally Posted by willravel
I love my iPod. I think I'm wearing it out. Of course, I'm at the core of the Apple Macintosh consumer base. I've had a different Mac every 3-4 years since the 80s. I think the greatest electronic invention is air conditioning, followed closely by solar, hydro, and wind power. I'm getting solar shingles for my house next year.
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Solar, hydro, and wind power have been around for hundreds of years. Nothing electronic about those. Plus, in their current form, thier increadibly inneficent. If you're into then for enviormental reasons, I applaud you - I wish more people would be concerned about that. I do though, think the enviorment would be better off if you took your solar cell money and gave it to a decent lobbying organization.
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Originally Posted by match000
Yeah they are actually two great inventions: the transistor and the integrated circuit! Which when combined of course has been the reason why everything electronics exists today..
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Thank you. I was half expecting those to go unnoticed.
Along the same lines... I would put a vote for the generator/alternator (the devices that take mechanical energy and transform it into "electricty". With out these, the transistor and the integrated circuit would be useless.
[que "the sun is the greatest"...]