The 48-Year-Old Machine That Proves Modern Tech Is Fragile
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is still transmitting data from interstellar space after 48 years. Its secret? Deliberate over-engineering: nuclear batteries, redundant thrusters, and radiation-proof tape drives. Modern tech, obsessed with efficiency and planned obsolescence, has much to learn from this ‘wasteful’ 1970s design.