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The first time with the Second Industrial Revolution, all of the technological breakthroughs were actually not that difficult.
It was just like Edison, who invented the electric light. The scientists at that time all knew the principle behind it. People didn't need to spend a lot of effort on the principle, they just needed money and time!
Edison was not so much a great inventor as a successful businessman!
Since he was good at interacting with capitalists, he could easily raise money, and he had a large number of researchers working for him!
Rather than saying that the electric light bulb was invented by him, it was more accurate to say that he ordered his guild to spend a lot of time and money to experiment and produce it!
What was the filament made of? He did not know either, but he could continue experimenting until the day he broke through!
Back when humans were researching internal combustion engine, electricity and other technologies, their methods were all very stupid. They were trying again and again to improve upon failure, to try again and again, to improve again!
Cars, planes, warships... These second Industrial Revolution's signature industrial products were all the products of empirical science!
When did science start to become so forbidding that ordinary people couldn't get close to it? It was going to be around the end of the second world war, especially the end of the second world war!
Quantum physics, chemistry, electronics... Humans began to move towards the microcosm, humans began to study the origin of materials!
At this time, science and technology were much more difficult to understand!
Because it was invisible to the naked eye, modern technology, especially quantum physics, focused more on studying the laws of atoms and the electronic world. People could no longer see it with their own eyes.
At that time, he would need to use a mathematician model!
In other words, the microscopic world that humans could not see depended on the imagination of scientists to establish models for their research!
This was too mystical. From then on, a wall formed between science and ordinary people!
Not everyone possessed abstract thoughts. The electricians who could install the most complicated circuits would probably not be able to draw the microcircuits within the chip!
The third time at the Industrial Revolution, it was all because of the quality of a basic scientist!
If any country wanted to stand out in the third Industrial Revolution, they would have to rely on famous theoretical physicists, mathematicians, and chemists to carry out the most basic theoretical research!
It was also the social criticism that Xiao Letian had heard about in his previous life. Many people complained, ”What's the use of learning these things? What could he do? You don't have to waste time in life! '
However, this kind of invisible and untouchable things that don't seem to be of any use in life have profoundly transformed our world!
He had to admit that the vast majority of humans could only survive in the two fields of action, thought, and image!
As for the higher level world of abstract thought, it would always belong to the minority!
Fortunately, Xiao Letian had not transmigrated into the future and had instead arrived at the end of nineteenth century.
In the 21st century, an ordinary lumber, locksmith, even a skilled mechanic in an automobile factory, can become a very good engineer in this era!
Because in this era, scientific research was still focused on the areas of visible and palpable vigilance, namely, the thinking of movements and the thinking of images!