In 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the point-contact transistor, the first working transistor ever demonstrated. It became the ancestor of the billions of transistors that power today’s computers, smartphones, and digital electronics.
This our closest relative: the Bonobo. Most of the time you’ll encounter its entire family in an orgy… Although very intriguing – thank God we, on our behalf, picked up a bow n arrow at some point.
On Yap Island, large donut shaped coins called Rai Stones are used as currency. As they are difficult to move, transactions are memorized through oral history – much like contemporary distributive ledgers. Rai Stone transactions are used for weddings, land acquisitions and ransoms.
