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...Washington for high technology, Japan is the country that has it. The Soviet Union is free to choose between Japan and the U.S. for high technology, just as we are free to choose between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In fact, the U.S. can't make reliable one-megabit chips. Japan is the only country that can mass-produce high-performance semiconductors. When I said this at the party, the Americans turned pale. But let me remind you that I was only responding to American threats that Soviet- American detente left no room for Japan...
...human economy. The medieval age gave way to the modern age because of the art of navigation, the invention of gunpowder and Gutenberg's art of printing. Now the modern age has come to a close because of nuclear power and electronics. I think Japan will be one of the major players that will build a new world history. It can't be done by Japan alone. Active interaction with other countries will enhance technological developments. In this respect the U.S. will remain Japan's most important partner. There's no doubt the U.S.'s position as a global leader...
...years since the invention of the transistor, is about to make another shrinking leap. Adapting the chipmaking equipment used to squeeze millions of electrical circuits onto slivers of silicon, researchers are creating a lilliputian tool chest of tiny moving parts: valves, gears, springs, levers, lenses and ball bearings. One team at the University of California, Berkeley, has already built a silicon motor not much wider than an eyelash that can rotate 500 times a minute...
...train controls and diagnostics. But scientists at Berkeley, Stanford, M.I.T., AT&T, IBM and a handful of other research centers around the world see much broader possibilities for minuscule machines. They envision armies of gnat-size robots exploring space, performing surgery inside the human body or possibly building skyscrapers one atom at a time. "Microelectronics is on the verge of a second revolution," says Jeffrey Lang, a professor of electromechanics at M.I.T. "We're still dreaming of applications...
Sensors like those made by Delco were the first to combine microelectronics and micromachines on one chip. The typical microsensor is a thin silicon diaphragm studded with resistors. Because the electrical resistance of silicon crystals changes when they are bent, the slightest stress on the diaphragm can be registered by the resistors and amplified by electronic circuits...