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What are some of the most surprising tech tree sequences? For example, the telephone predates widespread electricity adoption by ~40 years (!)
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Anti gravity research completely disappeared from physics and instead we got string theory. And string theory hasn’t produced anything productive
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Antidepressants were invented before social media.
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Mass produced lighters came before mass produced matches
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The fact that we had analog computers before digital computers still blow my mind
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The patent for the fax machine came before the invention of the telephone
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@futureartist
The first vaccine was done ~60 years prior to the introduction of germ theory
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microscope before microbe
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to a much lesser extent - vertical video on smart phones We had the form factor for ages before vertical video won - kinda mindboggling that it took as long as it did There were early efforts like slingshot but nothing really moved till snapchat added stories but still took a few years to snowball
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Neural networks in the 80s failed due to lack of compute power, then two decades of gaming drove GPU development until a few AI researches on the fringe could buy two GPUs for $1k to prove that they were right all along
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Electric car existing before gas car
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Bluetooth invented -> Bluetooth still can’t connect phone to most items it’s a one step tree… I would’ve never seen it coming
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Commodore Amigas didn't win
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We had submarines before airplanes. Humans went underwater before they went airborne
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