This engineering is so incredible, but engineering of this class is constrained by use-case and more importantly money. It makes one wonder, if we lived in a post-scarcity society, where money was no longer a constraint, in what other areas could humanity build?
I'm a long term Veritasium fan, and this video stands out to me as one of the best.
I find it interesting how the physics communities were so dismissive of the science in the early years, which seems to have led directly to ASML's current monopoly. The engineering is indeed incredible, and it's also incredible that so much of it was accomplished within one company. Talk about a competitive moat...
Cool video. I had no idea chips were so complicated with all those wiring layers above the transistors. It's kind of amazing the whole thing works with all that and 114 billion transistors in some chips (M1 Ultra).
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] threadBuilding stuff is about solving for scarcity.
In a post-scarcity world (and I realize it is more of a gradient than a binary), what reason would there be to build things other than for amusement?
I find it interesting how the physics communities were so dismissive of the science in the early years, which seems to have led directly to ASML's current monopoly. The engineering is indeed incredible, and it's also incredible that so much of it was accomplished within one company. Talk about a competitive moat...