[joezydeco]

I don't think people realize that we're standing on the shoulders of giants when we use most of this current technology.

The processor, for example, has a 5,000 page technical reference manual[1]. That's just describing how to use the chip. It doesn't go into detail about how each part works internally. But to the layman it's just a 2cm^2 chip so how complicated can it be?

Everyone wants the sausage but nobody wants to learn (or even know) what goes into it.

[1] http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/IMX6DQ...