Word: silicones
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...understanding of alchemy: the glass flowers in the Natural History museum, past the Science Center on Oxford Street. Anyone who has ever been asked to spin a convincing argument from difficult material will appreciate the glassblowers' unbelievable skill in crafting plants from silicon. These are not the kind of flowers one might bring as a gift; they're Amazonian plants, butterflies, beetles, vegetables, stalks, grass, all startlingly lifelike...
...join the digital era. In programs like Achiever.com and the Cisco Networking Academies, there's self-interest on both sides. The companies help create a skilled workforce that can install and maintain its products--and make money too. The students get their lives on track. In Silicon Valley this is known as "philanthropic entrepreneurialism," and it looks very much like the wave of the future. There are still a lot of disaffected people with a lot to prove to the world. Given means, motive and opportunity, anyone can breach the digital divide. It's as easy as turning...
...fantastically expensive and hard to come by. A start-up company that wants to manufacture parts for a new product may have to wait two years for a press to be built and delivered. Not exactly the quick turnaround time we've come to expect in the age of silicon...
Beane bought a technology company that made components for motherboards and other PC hardware for the burgeoning computer industry. By the mid-1980s, his company was flourishing, and he had begun making the kind of silicon-driven millions so many other high-tech entrepreneurs were piling up. All the while, though, what really fascinated Beane was reinventing not just products and components but the factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute...
TOUCH AND GO Admit it. Your company spends thousands of dollars on a secure computer network, and you keep your password on a Post-it note stuck to the monitor. Siemens thinks it has a better way--a mouse ($150 at siemensidmouse.com that doubles as a security system. A silicon plate embedded in the top of the device reads your fingerprint and confirms your identity by matching it to a digital image. Fingerprints make excellent passwords, says Siemens spokesman Thomas Tesluk: you can't forget them, and if you lose one, hey, you've got nine others...