What if technology was completely different?
I was just wondering what if technology was completely different from how it is today. Not based off of electricity to send information but hell something like water. I have a hard time thinking about this because Im so immersed and familiar in the technology we already have, so its hard to imagine.
Its like asking, what would technology be like on an alien planet without electricity? Sort of.
Its all just speculation but please give me something feasible that I can imagine. And no this has nothing to do with the environment and the "going green" movement
Electricity has two main functions. One is for digital switching which makes computers possible. The other is as a power source. Remember, we use electricity in almost every type of technology. While chemical reactions and photons are both capable of supplying energy, storing memory, and performing binary operations, electricity is probably 1000x more efficient than chemical reactions or photons. The probability that a civilization would reach a level of technology anywhere near ours and not have discovered (and adopted) electricity is very small.
However, there is the possibility that a civilization far more advanced than ours may have little need for electricity because they have discovered better alternatives, such as photons (which we employ to a degree today) or some kind of quantum particle interactions which we don’t even understand yet.
But it is highly doubtful that a civilization could evolve without going through an "electricity stage" and also somewhat improbable (imho) that a civilization would ever get so advanced that they abandoned electricity completely.
im not supprised of what scientists or engineers will come up with next, in the future they will probably make things unimaginable, they can do it now but it will take time, a computer can already use water to cool its system down and there are alot of powerplants that can run on constant water rotaion, but costs alot of money, but to the yeah i definately can imagine technology running on wierd things like water its likely to happen one day
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Electricity has two main functions. One is for digital switching which makes computers possible. The other is as a power source. Remember, we use electricity in almost every type of technology. While chemical reactions and photons are both capable of supplying energy, storing memory, and performing binary operations, electricity is probably 1000x more efficient than chemical reactions or photons. The probability that a civilization would reach a level of technology anywhere near ours and not have discovered (and adopted) electricity is very small.
However, there is the possibility that a civilization far more advanced than ours may have little need for electricity because they have discovered better alternatives, such as photons (which we employ to a degree today) or some kind of quantum particle interactions which we don’t even understand yet.
But it is highly doubtful that a civilization could evolve without going through an "electricity stage" and also somewhat improbable (imho) that a civilization would ever get so advanced that they abandoned electricity completely.
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If it is different today, the technological inventions before the technology is differented from today will be modernized and will be covered by new.
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Keep imagining, that’s how new discoveries and inventions come about. You may find the answer to the new source of power.
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Mechanical technology was already rather well developed before the usefulness of electricity was recognized. We are already vitally dependent on water-based technologies, including the operation of our own bodies, and the growth of everything that feeds us. It’s probably our most versatile material. We already communicate with optics, so without electricity we’d use that more. Good thinking.
If electrons or charge had different properties, we’d be forced to use other tools instead.
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Electricity is useful for sending information, because it moves at (almost) the speed of light.
Water moves at the speed of……..water; and it only goes downhill to boot.
Note: Ships have been used for carrying mail and messages for thousands of years.
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