Ignite: Molly Wright Steenson - A Series of Tubes, EP 7

[inuchance]

It's remarkable to see that even today, the same basic ideas of transferring information hasn't change much at all. All the same concepts we have now, we had then. We just used huge bulky iron tubes and steam engines, rather than compact computers and lengths of thin wire/glass cabling.

Certainly, as far as we've come, things back then had a certain charm to them you just can't get from modern hardware.

[Govadina]

ON A DESKTOP OMG!

[johnnyk427]

@4:53 on a DESKTOP, MOTHER FUCKER!

[johnnyk427]

God that countdown timer for each slide is annoying.

[bnipmnaa]

Fucking awful american accents.

[diversion77]

We still use pneumatic tubes at the hospital to transport medications, documents, samples, etc. Saves us all a serious amount of time. I've worked in other hospitals without tubes, and it sucks big time without these systems.

[toresbe]

These systems are still in wide use in places where it's simply the easiest way to transmit sensitive material; in military installations and - for example, the Norwegian house of Parliament maintains a large and actively used system. Which I've played with.

[JohnSaviedro]

Nickelodeon angry beavers used tubes

[ANGELxINxDESARKNS]

Brady, lots of banks still use tubes.

[WINDEXANDREW]

Wow! What a great presentation. On point and informative and lacking the usual fat marble filler that you see in most speakers. Excellent!

[ramblingwrek]

the speaker is orgasmic at points

[NickMArmstrong]

With the rising cost of gas - is there a real reason why we've not developed a trans-continental pneumatic tube?

How kick-ass would that be? "Okay Jimmy. Grandma is only 20 minutes away, but we have to sedate you so you don't cause a pressure imbalance and destroy Chicago with a sneeze."

[WolfieStorr]

I find myself staring at the countdown and not taking in what's being said.

[l1011l]

its a stupid and annoying feature they added, who gives a fuck about a stopwatch counting down.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[pascalod]

I love the way the talk format is QUICK-QUICK-QUICK! but the video wastes a minute on a title card's worth of info :)

[Dvon5000]

Great info, not sure how I feel about the lecture format. A speedy time-limit is fine and all, but having force-timed slides and the seconds count down super-imposed on the screen like that makes me nervous just watching. One would hope we're watching the video to learn something, not counting the seconds until it's over.

[Slacktive]

Larger department store have them to shuttle cash from the tills.

So does this technology suck or blow?

[cobaltbluetony]

Any bank with more than one teller on the side of the building uses pneumatic tubes.

A brand new high-tech Center for Advanced Medicine built by Penn in Philly incorporates a PT system to transfer biological samples to central pathology labs quickly for testing. A compatible system still exists across the street at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

[iGNiTe]

I am sure that *some* banks still use pneumatic tubes, but it is definitely not as common as it once was. Many now have drive-thru ATMs.

[tomanyasses]

some day in the future they will say remember all the idiots who talked on some thing called you tube

[dnafrequency]

Remember when? Banks still use pneumatic tubes.

[tipratikon]

do u think time will come and someone in future maka a presentation about how people in past used to use emails?