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Old 29-09-2017, 06:52 PM
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Book1 Heave - Ho > Counting Table > Abacus > I-Ching > Binary > Bit > Mehcanical Bit > Elec

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/binary.htm

The above is interesting page that converts a word into many differrent formats. Ex love in binary is 01101100011011110111011001100101

http://fenris.net/~lizyoung/abacus.html
..."The earliest known counting table is from the island of Salamis in Greece...........{ next came } the Chinese abacus had 13 columns.....

Chinese binary.
.." Leibniz encountered the I Ching through French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet and noted with fascination how its hexagrams correspond to the binary numbers from 0 to 111111, and concluded that this mapping was evidence of major Chinese accomplishments in the sort of philosophical mathematics he admired.[2][3] Leibniz saw the hexagrams as an affirmation of the universality of his own religious belief."......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code
..."Binary numerals were central to Leibniz's{ 1685 } theology. He believed that binary numbers were symbolic of the Christian idea of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing."....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Bothe

..."Walther Bothe, inventor of the coincidence circuit, got part of the 1954 Nobel Prize in physics, for the first modern electronic AND gate in 1924."...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
..."The first patent[ for the field-effect transistor principle was filed in Canada by Austrian-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld on October 22, 1925, but Lilienfeld published no research articles about his devices, and his work was ignored by industry."....



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Path_(book)
Fullers Critical Path: Speculations on Evolution of Humanity
Chapter 1 - Speculative Prehistory of Humanity
Ive read both the above and below books. r6
and Carl Sagans
THE DRAGONS OF EDEN: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Future: considerations, Climate changes{ natural and human made }, genetics manipulation, technological development in digital and technical advancements for what the digital is applied too.

For all of these reasons above, the future always carries information that is unknown now

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