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What are some incredible human feats we take for granted?
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Microprocessor manufacturing. Just think about it: we invent a device called the transistor. We're making them one by one and using them to make computers. And then, we just find the way to cram more and more of those devices in tiny, dirt cheap slabs of silicon that are literal computers by themselves. In 2021, a typical processor contained 60 billion transistors.
Computing in general. You're telling me you taught a rock to say "yesnonoyesyesnoyes" into a wire and that makes Final Fantasy appear on my TV? Yeah right. Obviously it's just magic.
In the first Iron Man comic, Tony Stark says that the secret of his power is 'transistors.' The arc reactor came much later.