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Originally Posted by Assassin
Not at all. Think back thirty years.
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Thirty years ago is 1981. The tech in use at the time might be a little clunky relative to what we have today, but got the job done. Radar, sonar, radio, TV, digital computers etc. had all had decades of refinement. Even GPS satellites had been in orbit for 8 years or so.
There is very little that is brand new since then, mostly it is just a matter of making it cheaper and smaller out of superior materials. That's a significant achievement in and of itself, but if you showed a 1981 electronics engineer a modern textbook I doubt they would find it much of a leap forward from a pure electronics perspective.