You have the opportunity to send one piece of modern day technology back to Bell Labs in the 1950's to change the...

You have the opportunity to send one piece of modern day technology back to Bell Labs in the 1950's to change the future world.

What piece of technology will you send back in time?

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2500k

The largest nuclear bomb in inventory.

Armed.

Any notebook

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1.44mb floppy

>implying a nuclear bomb can be unarmed

The drum machine

Thinkpad with Debian and lots of porn and anime

i kek'd a little, good plan.

well instead, i'll send 1mil pajeets back in time to bell labs.

Wow so edgy XDXDXDXDXD

a low temperature ceramic alloy superconductor

The brits fill theirs with metal ball bearings so they can't be used without spending 15 minutes draining them out.

thinkpad t60p with an offline copy of wikipedia on it. (and power brick, obvs)
If I had time, all of the years should be edited out of dates both on the computer and on the wiki archive.

A piece of paper with 1000's of sports teams/whatever wins with a note attatched. "I am from the future, win heaps of money and then come find me at this address from this point in time etc, hand the money down to your kids and shit and as a reward for all that shit you got gimmie ton's of money.

Love god"

gentoo

On the contrary. This would secure my nation's success in the Cold War in one swift stroke.

>some men just want to watch the world burn

He obviously means ticking down, dumbass.

16gb of ram

Iphone 6

A samsung S2 with a charger.

If we send nuclear bombs back in time and they destroy the earth would our existence be ended with neither death nor pain? That sounds nice.

The latest in mastubation technology.

A n550 atom netbook running linux and XFCE.

Dragon Dildos

The modern processor

We don't have nukes big enough for that. Not even all the nukes combined could destroy the earth.

Raspberry Pi.

>not even all the nukes combined could destroy the earth
Maybe not destroy it, but sure as hell make it uninhabitable from nuclear radiation

A Dell XPS with a dedicated GPU.

They might not even realize what it is. Were scanning electron microscopes even invented by that point?

Nope. We only have enough to carpet the largest cities.

>uninhabitable from nuclear radiation
Long before that the amount of dirt and shit blown into the air would block out the sun and we'd freeze to death.

>Not even all the nukes combined could destroy the earth.
they could if placed correctly.

For example, on the far side of the moon.

Of course, with Debian or Arch.

They were invented in 1937

A Bible so they can check to see if it's the same

>hyper realistic affordable sex bots instantly appear in the present

Pretty good plan, familia.

>this is what retards actually believe

KJV was translated in 1604, m8

Were there ones capable of focusing in on things at 45nm or lower by the 50s?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope

An iPhone obviously

1/4 of all the nukes ever detonated, 500+ bombs, were detonated in a small part of the Southwestern United States. The radiation in that area is a mere +0.3% increase from background radiation.

Nuclear winter is an overhyped and unproven theory promoted by anti-nuclear activists.

This might work pretty awesomely. Although, it wouldn't DESTROY the Earth, merely shatter it into pieces. I should do the math for this sometime.

Some old CPU from the 80s.
That would probably be within their ability to at least study and learn from on some level.

Send some modern stuff, like the latest i7 series and they'd be fucking clueless what to do with it.
I'm pretty sure that there's no way that they could even manufacture those things, even if they were able to reverse engineer the processor itself.

Why dont send a complete modern pc?

>and they'd be fucking clueless what to do with it
Did you even read the second paragraph?

>io9.gizmodo.com/5277702/could-our-nuclear-arsenal-really-destroy-the-world

Shit rebuttal link for responding to a shit post.

^This

A copy of Debian Jessie w/Source
Another option would be the Linux kernel

Looking through the history of them it looks like nm ranges were possible but I still have no idea if they had them

An alienware laptop. They'll think it's from Martians.

C wasn't invented yet. Send them a copy of "The C programming language" by K&R.

Documentation. New algorithms, hardware design concepts, practical ideas.

Sending a phone or some other piece of consumer tech back would be useless, they would have no means of mass producing them with current production methods or fully understanding how it works, and it wouldn't necessarily advance them further. Computing technology wasn't really as primitive as most people think, modern concepts like multiprocessing or virtualization were already present in mainframes and supercomputers, it was always expense of implementation that held back the "mainstream" market.

An F-22 Raptor lands in Honolulu June 23, 1954.

This

>What piece of technology will you send back in time?
Tools.
If size is no issue, a cleanroom stocked with XXnm lithography equipment.

They can figure out the design themselves.

>Documentation. New algorithms, hardware design concepts, practical ideas.
That's not "one piece of technology".

High-end photovoltaic cell
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the time machine

A locked-down computer running TempleOS

What if we just go back and prevent religion so the dark ages never halt technological progress for hundreds of years?
We could all have augmented vision and strength by now.

A binder full of printed out technical info on modern processor architecture and manufacturing procedures.

This is pretty spot-on. If you sent back a solar-powered Kindle loaded with the indexed records of the current US patent office (which even with non-technical patents removed, and digitized, might be much too large to pack into even a refridgerator-sized brick of hard drive with a Kindle interface, I dunno), and a few books detailing the history of technological development in various fields so they would know what to look up schematics for, you'd have the maximum amount of technological progress possible.

They can't just see what to make if you want to leap forward, they need to see how you did it. If a UFO covered with some strange half-organic polymer teleported into Silicon Valley today it's not like we could just reverse-engineer how to make that.

Religion argument aside, what you actually want to do is prevent the collapse of the Roman Empire. Good fucking luck.

On the contrary, the Dark Ages would have lasted much longer without Franciscan friars copying books, preserving technology, and creating inventions.

Stopping the Muslim armies from burning the Library of Alexandria would be an incalculable boost to technological development though.

Our best bet at stopping the Dark Ages is sending musket blueprints and a gunpowder recipe to the Romans.

It's not, because taking "one piece of technology" back with you is nothing more than a waste of time and space.

has a decent idea of it, though.

But technological insufficiency wasn't what killed the Empire. (And what did, could fill and has filled an entire large book.)

Supreme taste, user!

Latest atomic force microscope.

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Religious institutions were the ones actually preserving and funding scientific and technological advancement, it's not their fault that life and culture in the medieval era were not conducive to inventing Facebook.

There were more libraries than the one at Alexandria, you know. While it undoubtedly contained some unique works, its destruction did not stifle us any bit as much as ancient and medieval Europe being a wartorn, poverty-ridden shithole did.

Something Communication Encoding Related.

If people in the 50s started with anything remotely like the things that Dialup let alone DSL or even fucking DOCSIS use for data communications, we'd probably have an insane amount of speed over Copper ATM.

Just imagine - Ok, so This technology, will allow you to send 2MB in minutes or seconds (depending what you show them)

>Christ that's a fucking roomful of data

It's practically a major for a 4-year degree.

My recently built tube clock or an ssd.

The library of Alexandria was burned like 8 times. The Muslims hardly dealt a death blow to the wisdom of the Romans

And how would they make use of it with their current manufacturing capabilities? The solar powered e-reader is the best idea in the thread. You can send back information to further every field out there, allowing them to eventually catch up to more complex technology like modern microprocessors.

A time machine of course

My belief is that the core of it is stagnation of conquest. An empire that stops expanding is one foot in the grave. So, if we give them tech to conquer Africa and Asia, it should raise the technological level of the World in general.

Yeah, because adding more radically different cultures cultures and angry, marginalized subjects to your already vastly overextended empire is really what will save it.

/thread

Yes.

The amount of work that would be required to do it successfully would be immense though.

So you go and grab patents for all the useful inventions of the past 60-odd years? This takes a lot of careful judgement as to what's vital in the steps of leapfrogging and what can be skipped. Not super useful, all told. But okay, you know better. Now you go grab all the patents for the technologies required to build those: manufacturing machinery, materials science, and so on. This is WAY MORE STUFF than you had to get just for the devices themselves.

But that's still not enough, because a huge portion of tech/business knowledge is never written down. It's passed between people orally. Some of this is little tricks that make the job easier, but sometimes it's the entire reason that certain design decisions were made, or even vital steps in the process of creating the device/chemical/etc.

So now you've got to go and interview all the surviving people who helped make these technologies. And pull out the useful bits, match them to the technologies in question, and so on.

Then you have to make sure the device you're sending doesn't get locked away for decades with only certain people allowed access, limiting its use. You've got to make sure it is robust enough to continue working after component failure, which means less room for data.

And there's still plenty of room to fuck this up even if you got all that right.

I would send an M.2 SSD with [YTdownload]2016_best_memes_compilation.avi so that I could watch in 2015.

Go read up on the insane amount of progress we made after WWII stealing german patent info.

Same idea.

I'm a different user.

>So you go and grab patents for all the useful inventions of the past 60-odd years? This takes a lot of careful judgement as to what's vital in the steps of leapfrogging and what can be skipped. Not super useful, all told. But okay, you know better. Now you go grab all the patents for the technologies required to build those
easy, just send EVERY patent.
space is not an issue, we have freaking 10TB hard drives
include a good index and search engine

We also had GERMAN SCIENTISTS who had defected to the US.

I have no idea how large the server racks are at the US patent office. Those records might take up a lot more data than we expect them to. (Or else, you still have the work of reformatting them which might be considerable effort.)

And thats assuming that the Soviets/East Germans/Chechoslovakians/Chinese won't get their grubby little hands on it.

If that happens, prepare to sing L'Internationale by the mid-80's.

A shitty old PC full of porn, malware and dust.

anime

Theres more than enough for that. There's probably enough nukes to blow most of the crust of the earth away. Sure earth will still be there. But not even coachroaches will survive.

One day some idiots going to push the button to.

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No. youtu.be/XayNKY944lY

My idea of "documentation" wasn't so they could copy it directly though, it was about spreading ideas and abstract concepts, to *potentially* introduce them to more efficient or practical means of using and improving what they already have.

It's absolutely implausible to assume that a couple of researchers would be able to accurately replicate the achievements of an industry that stands on four decades of advancement and infrastructure, but maybe they could learn a thing or two from them.

Nope. Nuclear weapons aren't as efficient, as you think they are. It's a weapon against cities.

I disagree with those that say they would not be able to interpret a modern piece of technology. With an Oscilloscope and some mathematic reasoning you could figure out what a lot of components do. They wouldn't be able to replicate it or manufacturer it but they would learn hell of a lot which would be reflected in their future work.

How can we keep normies off the internet

You understand they already had nuclear bombs in the 1950's right?

>I have no idea how large the server racks are at the US patent office.
me neither, but we can probably estimate.

uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts.htm says, since 1950, total of about 7 million patents awarded (utility and design).

patentlyo.com/patent/2007/12/does-size-matte.html indicates that most patents up to 1990, averaged about 4000 words. Since then the number has about doubled, but there is a lot of variation and I'm not sure this includes both classes of patent. Let's just say they're averaging ~5000 words overall for the entire period of 1950-present.

The average number of characters in a word, in English, is between 5 and 6. Since these are mostly technical documents we'll use 6.

Assuming no data compression, that leaves us with 2E11 characters (bytes) which is 200GB.
Eazy squeeze onto a modern HDD, if not a Kindle.

Something that will give a real practical improvement without requiring impossible manufacturing infrastructure: a lithium-ion battery.