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» Science into Technology

 

Although it takes  less than a genius to add time-lining to a social networking site, it is still hard not to feel a bit amazed at the pace of scientific discovery and its subsequent conversion into useful applications.

 

For technoids, the pace of real innovation used to be centered around personal computers, servers, pads, and smartphones i.e., computing and communications device features. But for the last few years, that innovation has gone instead into making things smaller and cheaper, but not terrifically different.