Word: microchipping
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...bonus: there are no penalties for wrong answers. The weight of the argument and the heat of the debate are what count now. And of all the people who have floated these questions into the cultural ozone?scientists and sociologists, computer freaks and microchip madmen, quick-buck artists and free-falling futurists?none has kept them aloft for so long, or turned them to such profitable purpose, as Steven Paul Jobs...
...same brainstorm. Almost simultaneously, they realized that any number of transistors could be etched directly on a single piece of silicon along with the connections between them. Such integrated circuits (ICs) contained entire sections of a computer, for example, a logic circuit or a memory register. The microchip was born...
Although Wall Street still projects an image of shouting brokers and mountains of ticker tape, Rolland and his staff conduct their business with quiet, microchip efficiency in a Chippendale-furnished office. Seconds after the Chemical Bank group decides on a stock to buy, an order is called over a tieline telephone link to a Wall Street broker, who transmits the order to floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction is registered quickly in the mammoth computers of the stock exchange, which have the capacity to handle deals for up to 150 million shares a day. A phone...
...excuse for retreating from our ideals," he declared. "The last thing this nation needs hi the 1980s is two Republican parties." Mondale does not criticize the neoliberals so strongly, but he is nevertheless wary of their proposals. Says he: "You can't have a banner with a microchip...
Until the Sea Harrier faced its first real full-scale combat test, no one knew for sure how it would perform its many duties. Its success over the South Atlantic, notes a veteran Harrier pilot, proves that even in the microchip age "mobility, flexibility and surprise are still as important as they ever were...