Space Race, Electronics, and Early Computing

Gary covers Sputnik to Apollo, satellite proliferation, transistors, integrated circuits, and computing's early spread.

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By 1975, the world had seen 25 years of radical change. The changes seen in the first half of the 20th century accelerated even faster. Empires ended, there were social and technical revolutions, new nations were created, humans landed on the moon, and the world was in the midst of peak Cold War.

Energy, inflation, and civil rights, which had always been issues, were now front and center.

Learn more about the world in the year 1975 on the 1,975th episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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