How refreshing to see something like this on HN; I want to iterate that there is an inextricable link between textiles and computer technology going back to the invention of the loom
Textiles were among the very earliest technologies, were hugely significant to ancient cultures (there are numerous Greek mythological entities associated with weaving, sewing, thread, cloth, etc.), some innovations were remarkably late (knitting, about 800 CE), and of course, textiles drove the early Industrial Revolution: Kay's Flying Shuttle (1733), James Hargreaves' spinning jenny (1764), Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769), and Joseph Marie Jacquard's punched-card loom (1804).
This is a wonderfully insightful connection. You could think of fabric as an early display technology, especially when paired with something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
Threads, spin locks, bytecode weaving, CUDA warps, switched fabrics ...
Indeed, looms were some of the earliest programmable machinery, and the cause of arguably the earliest concerns about automation causing unemployment.
techwear has been a trendy industry for solid 5+ years now
Can you give some trending examples that are not just phones strapped to the body?