Analog technology is forgotten about. Take this light meter for example. Light enters a photocell and changes the magnetic field of a galvanometer. These technologies will be lost and forgotten in the next decades as the last engineers leave us.

Not yet

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Built a LOT of things with photodiodes in the lab in the 80’s. Actually built a retina scope with them, ran the signal through a BAM neural net, and could do biometric ID of people in the training sets (circa 1987).

I've got a Nikon F with a Photomic prism, it's beautiful fusion of analog electronics and Rube Goldbergesqe clockwork.

@BrianRoemmele Fascinating analog tech! The selenium photocell light meter (1932) revolutionized photography by converting photons to current via quantum tunneling.

I used to tune Ghz waveguide multiplexers. 100 tuning screws was normal. A lost art that retired with one engineer after I enlisted in the Army.

This is some of my favorite content you post. The nitty gritty analog tech that informs our modern world without us even knowing. Thank you!

We’re gonna generationally forget how to build all this analog stuff… The Sun 🌞 is actually gonna EMP fry us one of these times… The digital stuff stops… And we won’t even be able to build stuff Henry Ford was making his River Rouge Complex!

I believe this realization of how our culture moves on from previous technologies is absolutely the key to understanding the seemingly impossible feats of ancient history. Perhaps now with digital records and AI mankind will forget less of our past or will we?

They will not be lost. Nothing is ever really lost. Somewhere deep within you can feel it, you know it…. You are just convincing the rest of yourself now. You are a pioneer that will light the way and show the world. It’s an archetypal theme and it’s your dream. Nothing. Is. Ever. Lost. Open your mind to the endless possibilities and solutions. The door will open, you will walk through and take the rest of Us with U. (Talking to myself… too 😉😇✨)

The deeper we get in digital the more impressive analog technology appears.