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Fermentation

Controlled rot, responsible for most of what people like.

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology is not a future promise — it is a century-old industrial method that runs on bacteria, not buzzwords.

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Pasteurization is a calibrated thermal intervention that stops microbial spoilage in liquids by killing vegetative bacteria and deactivating enzymes — without sterilising. It works because Pasteur proved microbes cause spoilage, not oxidation or time. Its limits are strict: spores survive, and efficacy depends on uniform heat delivery to every particle. It changed food safety from craft tradition to measurable process — but only where temperature can be controlled, verified, and sustained.

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Crucial

Crucial was the brand under which Micron Technology sold its consumer memory and storage products, until the brand was discontinued in 2026.

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Personal computer

A personal computer is a computer designed for personal use and operated directly by its user, rather than shared through time-sharing on a mainframe or minicomputer.

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Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is a hardware interface, developed by Intel with Apple, that carries PCI Express, DisplayPort and power over a single cable to connect external peripherals to a computer.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics · 1981

Silicon Graphics built the first practical hardware-accelerated 3D graphics systems. Its Geometry Engine — designed at Stanford under ARPA — delivered ~6 million geometry operations per second. It pioneered scalable cc-NUMA architectures in the mid-1990s. But its reliance on proprietary MIPS and failed transitions to Itanium and Xeon eroded its position as PC graphics commoditised. It filed for bankruptcy in 2009.