I get that, and totally agree. I was just pointing out that although our PC technology may seem to have grown suddenly, it has a well established and documented history that doesn't need to include alien technology to explain.


However, to play devil's Advocate .... Why do we have to assume Aliens would give us their current level of technology?? Why not give us the concept of a PN juction as a switch to use and evolve on our own? A PN juction switch is something we might not have had, but we certainly could understand it. We were already using VTs to perform the switching necessary to store and use binary states; I doubt we could have evolved a more advanced method on our own, of say Quantum Computing, because we didnt have the technology to exploit it at the time. We would have had to have a lot more sophisticated technology in may areas to use it at all, which means they would have had to given us a LOT of technology.

If we found a race of intelligent monkeys and wanted to help them, would we give them a fully fledged car, or start them out with the Wheel instead?

To be clear, I dont think we got any of our tech, or anything else from aliens. Just playing devil's advocate.