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That Is Correct.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

• Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village

Is there any feasible tech that can harvest energy from a lightning bolt? Maybe a molten salt type thing?

the template is based on Baudrillard’s 4 Stages of Simulacra

Right on, I forgot about all those multivibrators they made with vacuum tubes and such.

this is pretty good, especially if you understand anything about how semiconductors work

see there used to just be conductors and insulators - a binary (as was accepted at the time)

then some people realized you could violate the binary to create new kinds of circuits and something called semiconductors that had properties of both insulators and conductors and could change between them

this led to all kinds of new possibilities that eventually gave rise to new functional circuits like logic gates and memory cells (flip flops) by wiring these circuits together in ways that had previously been considered impossible