[negamax]

Just amazing! Imagine all the physics and knowledge from multiple sciences, disciplines and fields are used when someone tells Amazon Echo to turn on a charger or socket that’s connected to a phone or laptop.

Echo -> ISP wires —> Undersea Cables —> Amazon Servers -> Back home -> Electricity flow

And this is so super high level

All of these devices on the way are powered by electricity from dams, solar, wind etc. Before voice to speech hits or data is read. Processors and hard disks must do so much heavy lifting

It’s surreal the level of abstraction we are surrounded by..

[aaronblohowiak]

Quite fascinating and mind-boggling. What really blows my mind is that technology is still extraordinarily less complicated than (bi|ec)ology.