electronics · electrical
devices that use electricity to change information with parts in a structure
Examples
- The Apollo Guidance Computer directed lunar landings using integrated circuits powered by the spacecraft's electrical system. engineering
- The 2003 Northeast Blackout halted traffic signals, hospital equipment, and communication networks across eight U.S. states. event
- The IBM 1401 processed payroll data for businesses in the 1960s using transistorized circuitry and magnetic core memory. computing
Emergence
through: electricity flows through structured parts in a device, using controlled change to encode or transform information.
- controlled information processing
- dynamic signal response
- reconfigurable functional states
Chain to foundations
as tree
- electronicsL7
- electricityL6
- energyL0
- motionL2
- patternL0 (shown above)
- matterL1
- chargedL5
- matterL1 (shown above)
- energyL0 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- contactL4
- changeL1 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- timeL0 (shown above)
- flowL3
- happenL2
- partL1 (shown above)
- deviceL5
- structureL2 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- informationL6
- partL1 (shown above)
- useL6
- electricityL6
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| enables | technology.tool | is-a |
| enables | control.ability | enables |