Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

In article <slrnv760nq.ve1.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

People are bitching about a lack of flying cars or fusion power,
but hardly notice the actual, incredible, crazy progress that is
happening.
 
I'm talking of course about artificial illumination.  (Yes, again.)
Not sexy?  Too bad.
 
Recently a conventional light bulb that had escaped my purge revealed
itself by dying.  I replaced it with the latest generation of Philips
LED bulb that requires about 1/14 (!) as much energy for the same
light output and is specified with a lifetime of 50.000 hours, which
amounts to some 50 years of average use.
 

I have been replacing LED bulbs at a much higher rate than that for one
particular fixture. They aren't lasting even 10 thousand hours (why that
is happening, I have no idea - if the fixture was wired up wrong, the
incandescent bulbs I had been using wouldn't had lasted as long as they
did).

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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