There was a report maybe 7-8 years ago on what was claimed to be the first US residential installation of 10G service. The customer was a radiologist, with the fast network enabling transfer of high resolution medical imaging for assessment.

I recall a Dave Barry article from years back talking about (paraphrased) someone talking on "a cellphone the size of a grain of rice, to whatever area code the rear bumper of their giant SUV is in". Recall also that all bicycles weigh 50 pounds.

You clearly have not watched a sufficient number of bad science fiction movies.

Adaptations beyond provided written instructions required in exactly this task, over the past 3 days: 1) recognizing that the hose clamp for the dishwasher drain was diabolically installed with the screw head toward the back of the cabinet, and at a rotation that jammed the screw head against the fixture; 2) understanding the specific drain coupling arrangement and determining how to loosen and get clearance for each piece before uncoupling the old unit; 3) inspecting the couplings for reuse; 4) horrid cabinet design makes single-handed close quarters lift difficult, order a small lab jack and put it on a stack of old encyclopedia volumes to get the new unit up to the height to engage the locking ring; 5) previous experience in checking that the drain couplings are properly positioned and secure. Circumscription! Cyc! Parrots! Help me AI-wan Kenobi!

As a builder of model planes and rockets in my youth, it was nostalgic and humorous to see his out-the-car-window method for testing stability (center of pressure vs center of mass). At an age with no direct access to cars, we did this by tying a string around the rocket tube at the balance point, then swinging it around to see if it tumbled. My first programming exercise was to mechanize the Barrowman equations for center of pressure estimation, on a Wang programmable calculator.

Not in Germany: Squirrel

SQL was the sequel to SEQUEL, which in turn was described by the linked 1974 paper. As a snapshot from history, in a course taught maybe 1973 by Prof. Melkanoff at UCLA, I recall a statement (paraphrased) "we have been hearing about a recent development by Ted Codd at IBM Research called the Relational Model, which looks promising as a path forward in databases.". We then were introduced to Select, Project, Join.

Early life in Texas, which has actual armadillos, and where dildos were at one time illegal, had me reading it correctly.

The stochastic parrots are being trained to frequently interject "hey what's up you guys" and "subscribe to my" into their texts.

The 3 stations realm delivered My Mother the Car.

"Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?" -- Elysium

My first real computer exposure, through the IBM school discount obsolete equipment time warp, was 1620 Model 1. Core memory for this model was I believe in an oil bath with a heater, and required upwards of 20 minutes to get to operating temperature after cold power-on.

Arithmetic in Model 1 was by table lookup from tables loaded into specified memory locations. I believe Model 2 used an actual ALU rather than table lookup.

1620 required 1 memory location per decimal digit; 2 memory locations per alphanumeric character. The disk monitor that we usually used, required typing branch instruction 4900796 into the console typewriter. 1620 punched card in/out was to programmer chosen memory locations.

The contemporaneous IBM 1401 represented alphanumeric card data in one memory location per card column, 6 bits plus Check (parity) and Flag (delimiter bit for variable length fields). Card and print in/out was to fixed memory regions, card input to locations 1-80, constituting a "card image" in the specific BCD encoding. Some of these machines served as card/tape and tape/print machines alongside expensive wide word "scientific" machines like 7094 (which I never used) that usually worked tape-to-tape.

No faking here: I coded an audio delay/mix experiment in 8080 machine code, keyed it in with front panel switches on an Altair 8800, and obtained interesting and at times disorienting audio effects through an A/D and D/A board. The first program that I wrote was for a Wang programmable calculator, using IBM Porta-Punch cards (like "hanging chad" ballot cards). I have diagnosed and repaired discrete transistor line drivers for core memory: the electrons must go uphill both ways.

Emergency, emergency! They're going to mine all the Moon lithium! Flush more money down the Boeing toilet! Wait, it's a Boeing toilet, stand clear during flush..