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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The integrated circuit and fiber optics both made astounding leaps forward in very short periods of time. Fiber optics have a very different development arch and went from an illumination technology to a data transmission technology in a very short period of time. Both innovations a result of contracts with the government.
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With regards to light be used to transmit data are you referring to Bell’s photo phone from the 1880s?
The physics of refraction were well known in the 1850s.
This was just a manufacturing problem.
The other challange is that if we did discover bodies and ships why are we so arrogant to believe we could learn anything from it? If I sent my iPhone back 1000 years it would offer zero value to the people using it.