The Way of all Tech

3. October 2007 by the author.

In the spring of 2007 I took a class on signal processing, and the hardware simplicity of seemingly complex goals left me dumbfounded. Three components gets you a band-pass filter, it turns out, and that’s the key to decades-old radio technology. It was here that an old hobby came up - downsampling technology to move it backward in time. You’ve probably seen this in the form of Steampunk, where everything from airplanes to operating systems is projected onto a romanticized Victorian era. I tend to work less conspicuously, fitting good ideas back into the past where they might have truly existed, only to be forgotten as yet another half-baked failure. This story is proof that truth is almost always stranger than fiction, and often more interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

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