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matherial 24 minutes ago [-]
What an odd website. It explains everything in incredibly childish terms ("The display you’re reading this on is an absurd grid of exactly [wrong number] tiny, multicoloured light bulbs, known as pixels.") and has lots of unnecessary LLMisms ("Electricity made light effortless. The torch in your phone made darkness optional."), and all in all, feels like a wasted concept because it doesn't really say anything that isn't patently obvious: a phone has a screen and a camera and a CPU... okay? Not exactly mind-blowing.
It doesn't really even do anything to support its thesis that it's the "most intricate machine you've ever held". I don't know, I'm holding a Thinkpad laptop right now and I'm pretty sure it's a superset of what's inside a phone.
londons_explore 11 minutes ago [-]
You're absolutely right.
I guess this website isn't ready for primetime yet.
Let me rewrite it all only to still have most of the same issues it used to have, and a few extra ones too.
E-Machine 2 minutes ago [-]
Author here, thanks for sharing.
The central concept is that the smartphone is an unparalleled entry point to the history of science and technology. A huge range of human needs, from illumination to navigation, telecommunication to calculation were met by increasingly sophisticated tools over millennia, then collapsed into a single device over the last 30 years.
I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes, please shout them and I'll fix!
CapitalistCartr 20 minutes ago [-]
The most intricate machine I've ever held was an inertial guidance system, back when they were hugely complex. My phone isn't even close.
Retr0id 4 minutes ago [-]
Not enough tokens for some diagrams/illustrations, too?
jimnotgym 50 minutes ago [-]
I came here hoping to hear stories of the more intricate machines people have held.
I held a baby. Does that beat a phone?
dylan604 35 minutes ago [-]
Puts a new spin on designed in California, built in China
bluejellybean 44 minutes ago [-]
Beats it for sure, humans are by far the most complex machines, a true marvel of the world. By comparisons, humans make phones look like simple toys.
FartyMcFarter 9 minutes ago [-]
I don't know, it's different. Humans are analog wonders, phones are digital wonders, both impressive in one of those categories.
jollyllama 40 minutes ago [-]
Spectrum analyzer might not be baby-tier but it probably is more intricate than a phone. Not that I've held one.
nonameiguess 9 minutes ago [-]
Any animal beats an engineered machine. Heck, the bacteria in your hand are probably more intricate than a phone.
It doesn't really even do anything to support its thesis that it's the "most intricate machine you've ever held". I don't know, I'm holding a Thinkpad laptop right now and I'm pretty sure it's a superset of what's inside a phone.
I guess this website isn't ready for primetime yet.
Let me rewrite it all only to still have most of the same issues it used to have, and a few extra ones too.
The central concept is that the smartphone is an unparalleled entry point to the history of science and technology. A huge range of human needs, from illumination to navigation, telecommunication to calculation were met by increasingly sophisticated tools over millennia, then collapsed into a single device over the last 30 years.
I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes, please shout them and I'll fix!
I held a baby. Does that beat a phone?