Question Your World: What do Looms and Laptops have in Common?

loom to laptop

If you’re reading this you must be using some sort of computer. Most of us have an idea about the origins of our modern computer units, but sometimes explaining the lineage of these machines leads only up to the first design. The big question is - how did we get all the way to a computing machine? We could not have gone from fire or the wheel straight to iTunes, right? What’s responsible for the giant leaps and bounds in technology that make our life what it is today? The process of science, that’s how!

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by Prabir Mehta, Science Museum of Virginia

I was amazed to learn that USB is just going to the junk yard we have fire wire and thunderbolt and still USB 3.0 is still a premise of the top notch laptops
arent we seen CD DVD floppys etc go out of the door in barely a year ,I cant keep up no more

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