You’ve heard the saying big is beautiful, well in the modern world of digital electronics and communications, small is far more important. It is amazing how we take for granted the modern world we live in today, we expect our internet to work at full speed, our smartphones to give …
Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables?
99% of all the internet traffic and most probably the video you are watching now has traveled over an undersea cable somewhere along the route. It is estimated that the finance sector alone sends some $10 trillion dollars per day of financial transactions over these cables. And as a whole …
How The MIT Ideas Factory Revolutionised the Future
It’s said that if the combined income of all the 120,000 MIT alumni, living and dead, were put together it would be equal to the 10th largest economy in the world, which as of today is Canada at about $2.2 trillion. I did a video about Bell Labs a while …
Will NanoBots be worse than A.I?
Whilst I was researching for the last video about inertial guidance, I came across the miniaturization of what were basically large spinning flywheels down to parts that could be fabricated on a silicon chip just millimeters in size and yet did the same overall function. But how small can we …
How Inertial Navigation Changed Air, Sea & Space Travel for Ever?
On the 8th Feb 1953, a B-29 took off from Hanscom Airforce base near Boston, Massachusetts to fly to Los Angeles, California, a journey of approximately 2600 miles or 4290 km and 12 hours in flight time. But this would be no ordinary flight, this flight would be the first …
Lost for decades, How Sonar is revealing the secrets of the sea, lakes and rivers.
What is the link between the wreck of the Titanic and the solving of missing persons cold cases in the USA? Well, both were found with sonar, a technology that uses sound to locate objects and measure distances in water. We currently know more about the surface of Mars and …
The Device that Won WW2 – The Cavity Magnetron
It was called “the most valuable cargo ever brought to the US shores” and in many ways brought about many technological aspects of the world we live in today and yet this device had a chequered beginning and appears to have been independently invented several times in different countries. A …
Bell Labs – The Company that Invented the Future
To some it was the ideas factory, to others it was the most influential institution of its kind in the world and in many ways has created much of the technology that is the bedrock of our modern world. With 9 Nobel prize winners, whose work has been part of …
What Happened to the Iconic British Red Telephone Box?
To me and anyone over the age of about 40, telephone boxes or phone booths if your in the US were often our only way of calling someone if you didn’t have a phone in the house and were a common sight in cities, towns and villages, even out in …
What Has NASA Done Ever for Us – The CMOS Image Sensor
Alright, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, road, the fresh water and public health, what have the romans ever done for us. Much like the Monty Python scene from Life of Brian, some might well say What has NASA ever done for us? NASA is …
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