A lot of people have a strong intuition about how a lot of technologies work. When you look at cars and internal combustion engines, you sort of imagine how exploding gasoline drives pistons and makes rotational energy available to the wheels. When you think about computers, you might sort of understand that tiny bits of silicon can get turned from electricity blockers to electricity pipes, and this switching somehow enables computing using 1s and 0s, which are represented by the electricity being on or off at these tiny switches. Rockets, airplanes, vaccines, and video games all hold places in our brains that we at least imagine we sort of understand.
The Magic of How Steel Works
The Magic of How Steel Works
The Magic of How Steel Works
A lot of people have a strong intuition about how a lot of technologies work. When you look at cars and internal combustion engines, you sort of imagine how exploding gasoline drives pistons and makes rotational energy available to the wheels. When you think about computers, you might sort of understand that tiny bits of silicon can get turned from electricity blockers to electricity pipes, and this switching somehow enables computing using 1s and 0s, which are represented by the electricity being on or off at these tiny switches. Rockets, airplanes, vaccines, and video games all hold places in our brains that we at least imagine we sort of understand.