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Satoshi stood on the shoulders of the giant when he made Bitcoin.
Bitcoin only arrived in 2009 after the arrival of World Wide Web in 1989.
All three innovations are telegraph echoes.
I’m here to tell you that Sony’s Walkman might have been just as important.
The first Sony Walkman release was not like that that’s right That day. It was yesterday that Sony began selling the TPS-L2 in Japan in 1979. It is a blue pocket-sized portable cassette player that has become a global cultural phenomenon within just two years.
According to Legend, Sony co-founder Masal Ibeka was entrusted with Sony’s tape recorder division to design devices for listening to operas on long-haul flights.
The Crack Engineer Skunk Works Team has gotten to work. They pulled away from the Sony TCM-100B or the Pressman, a portable cassette recorder that can be used with one hand, a year ago.
Pressmen were already popular for taking notes on voices to journalists and businessmen, allowing them to play recordings from built-in speakers at 1.5 times faster.
Bank of America’s Innovation Chart identifies where a particular invention is in the history of the population. The chart will make Bitcoin equal to polio vaccines and DVDs, but Walkman That’s not there.
Within four months, Sony’s team, led by engineer Kozo Othorne, replaced the pressman’s speakers and record circuits with stereo amplifiers and prototyped them on the same chassis. A portable stereo cassette player paired with a lightweight headphone set.
Despite internal protests from Sony’s non-believers, it only took eight weeks for the first batch of 30,000 Walkmans to sell out in Japan. By the end of 1980, 2 million units had been shipped worldwide.
There were previous iterations of portable musicians, but Sony Walkman quickly became a must-have in every lifetime. New YorkerIn September 1981, he saw “a diplomat in Washington, a Chicago stewardess, a San Francisco cable car conductor, and a toddler in Seattle, all wearing Walkman recorders and fax machines.”
Common Cog writes about the Walkman: “To put things in context: in the 1970s there was no chance of having a personal soundscape that could roam around.
Does it sound familiar? Before the Walkman, it was simply not feasible to be your own DJ, at least outside the house, away from the stereo. Walkman changed social behavior, and for the first time people were quarantining themselves with headphones on trains, buses and planes.
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It’s an old slogan, but Bitcoin has likewise enabled you to become your own bank, at least outside the shelves under the mattress and under the walls. Bitcoin provided an alternative to a financial system that never worked for everyone, changing how people behave economically.
