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The world is changing, but is the rate of change accelerating or slowing down? Would a person who fell asleep in 1950 and woke up in our time be as surprised as a person who was in 1850 and woke up 50 years later would be surprised? In the photo: a monk in Myanmar takes a picture with a smartphone. Source: Jennifer Stahn.

The world is changing, but is the rate of change accelerating or slowing down?

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John Baird's mechanical television transmitter, in the London Science Museum

90 years since the first television broadcast by John Logie Baird

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A screenshot of one of the first Gameboy devices. was based on an LCD screen.

LCD screens - not only the TV of the third millennium

Dr. Yael Namirovsky at the IEEE conference, August 2015. Photo: Shmuel Oster

The history of electro-optics in Israel began following a demand for sensors after the intelligence crisis in the Yom Kippur War

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The video signal from the television receiver (on the left) is transmitted to the neon lamp and causes its brightness to change according to the needs of the image at each point. This system produced a dim orange image, 1.5 inches (about 4 centimeters) in diameter.

The mother of the television - 90 years since the first experiment of the mechanical television

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A robot handshake. Illustration: Ben Gurion University

Artificial intelligence illusion or reality

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Susan Vega from Wikipedia. CC licensed image

The Man Who Beat Susan Vega: On the History of the Mp3

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lightning

The effect of lightning on radio reception and its safety - an article from 1936

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Nylon stockings on flesh and blood legs

Ma'am, it's mine! About the nylon riots

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Leon Termin plays the instrument named after him

Radio and electronics in the Land of Israel in the twenties

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