Did Your Laptop Come From Alpha Centauri

If this is the absolute best of alien technology, I don't think they're quite as great as I had imagined. Slow as heck, prone to crashing, and constantly being updated.

I'd like to think humans are pretty smart creatures, and aliens aren't that dumb to be using this junk. An alien computer would probably be entirely fiber-optic based or something instead of conventional wires, etc. Probably floats and glows too, just because aliens know how to do the aesthetics .

With respect to computer hardware, if one looks at today's computer technology, it is nearly magical.

But it is possible to trace computer technology back to a level where it wasn't micro or nano-small.

There is a chain of developments leading from simple mechanical systems, such as weaving machines, up through the models of Babbage, Lovelace, Van Neuyman, and Turing. The computer is essentialy the culmination of 200 years of European research.

Now, is it possible that the on-a-chip transistor came from alien tech? I suppose.

But I would bet that if alien tech had anything to do with this, it would be that alien tech inspired us to look in the right direction for miniaturization and solid state circuitry. But thats pure speculation.

Personally, I think the changes we have seen in the last 130 years are all the result of the availability of oil and the culmination of standard scientific models.

The problem is, one of those things is a limited resource.

The Turing computers were large and too complex to handle. They were mostly used in businesses.

I remember when the first pc came out with floppy drive. It was sometimes in the 70's; even as a child, I couldn't understand why the computer was still so primitive.

In my short time I have lived on Earth; mankind's technology, especially in biomechanics has increased tenfold. What surprises me that the technology of computers has trebled and yet there is very little change in the manufacture of a light bulb.

I have no doubt that some of our sciences are a result of top secret projects. Although, I am 42-I have seen advancements in certain technologies that can be best described as something out of this world.

Videophones was science-fiction only 30 years ago; now they are commonplace. Videophones are the 3g phones we know of today.

Technological progress was slow in my Nan's day. She was born in 1903 and the only real advancement in technology she saw was the aeroplane and the moon missions. Mind you, sending a vertical craft up has always puzzled me and seems to add more stress to the body rather than the pilots being in a horizontal position. Then again, what do I know.

One thing I do know is that our technology has sped up in the last 30 years and it wasn't long back when I asked my husband when they were going to invent cameras without film. Within 10 years more, or less, of me saying that lo and behold we have the digital cameras.

I have no doubt that our advancement has an outside source connected with it and it isn't just pure genius. It wouldn't surprise me if scientists using back technology have already have been working on manned crafts to explore the solar system and they just haven't told us yet, as a result of their studies on objects that they have acquired from otherworldly sources.

No, my computer didn't come from Alpha Centauri, but I'm convinced that some evil group of reptilian overlords are answering the tech support number.