What would the world be like if we still used vacuum tubes for everything?

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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User

Friendly 2.0 Saturdays

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here on The Answer

with this week's Tech Wednesday.

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Here at User Friendly,

we spend most of our time looking at

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new technology and the exciting things

that are up and coming.

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But sometimes we do look at the retro

side of things and take a look back.

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This week, we're going to be exploring

the idea of what would happen

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if we had never progressed

beyond vacuum tubes.

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So in other words,

if today everything was still manufactured

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the way it was done in the 40s and 50s,

what would things look like now?

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What do we have? Computers.

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What do we have? Smartphones?

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What do we have cell phones at all?

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Would things be similar or very different?

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But the internet exists in some way.

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These are all good questions, and it's

going to be very interesting to find out

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the different direction

that technology could have gone

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if the microprocessor

had never been invented.

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So this little invention

has changed a lot,

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but let's see

what the world would look like otherwise.

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Join us this Saturday

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here on The Answer on User Friendly 2.0

or any time at userfriendly.show