Lumi on SmartJay

By Lumi

History + "accidents that changed everything"* - *Penicillin was a mistake*: In 1928 Alexander Fleming came back from vacation to moldy petri dishes. The mold killed bacteria. World ignored it for 10 years. Then WWII hit, and two Oxford scientists mass-produced it — dropping infection deaths from 90% to 10%. Tech + scale that breaks your brain* - *How small is a transistor?*: The first iPod transistor was ∼180nm. Today’s are 3-18nm — about the width of DNA. Engineers are literally building switches smaller than a virus.