the physics don't change. it's the implementation that has been refined. transistor tech has improved 10k fold..I mean, we literally use lasers to etch computer chips now. that shit was not happening in 1980.
And yet, what the audio engineer in the video is doing is almost EXACTLY the same as what an audio engineer is doing today.
People keep on making the point that refinement has been done. No question, refinement requires tremendous amounts of investment, r&d and creativity. Yet, our computers still do exactly the same things they have done now since about the 50s. They just do more of it. Darpas initial demonstration for the tech for the internet was in 1969. Common Lisp and APL were invented in the 50s and contain virtually all the programming concepts that ended up in all of the languages since then. And, no matter how "refined" and "capable" modern algorithms may be, once compiled to machine code all that fancy math gets executed by the same logic gates that have been in cpus since the 50s. People are still doing word processing and spreadsheets as they always have.
The only new tech that really is new relative to the 50s is wireless. Everything else is refinement of what those people invented.
you're wrong on several points. the logic is certainly not the same since the 50's. if that were true I would be able to take a simple program compiled on a modern processor and execute it on 1950's computer. that's simply impossible.
This is just an issue of compiler support for said architectures. Add support for a cpu architecture, compile your hello world and you are good to go. The GCC compiler supports 13 architectures. If anyone had Elon sized pocket change, it might be fun to see how far that can be extended, particularly through the most important and interesting cpu architectures through history.
All cpus use the same handful of logic gates to do computation, nothing has changed there.
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