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Most technologies continue to improve with innovation, like WiFi. What is a technology that was nearly perfect upon conception? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by electronVolt@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Transistor. It was so far ahead of its time it is still being argued to be alien tech to this day.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I mean this thread is about tech that was perfect from it's inception to the point where it didn't or barely improved. Nothing could be further from the truth, transistor tech has had literally trillions of dollars and millions of smart people's careers poured into it, and semiconductor IC manufacturing is now the most complicated single activity that our species does.