Silicon is pretty great. Testifying to its greatness is more than 70 years’ worth of steady progress in electronic computing, from the first primitive desktop calculators to that pocket-size supercomputer we call a smartphone.
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An artist David Kukhalashvili uses a smartphone to read a qr-code to get more information about political prisoners of Russia in an underpass painted like a prison corridor during the presentation of the art project "Underground Despair", dedicated to 98 Crimean residents who were arrested after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia by Georgian artist David Kukhalashvili in downtown Kyiv on Feb. 8, 2021.
