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...Usually, for such fundamental discoveries, it takes the rest of the world years to see what they've got," said Ciappenelli, who said Herschbach's work could prove to be as significant as the development of the transistor...
...would race through such a machine with near perfect efficiency, which would make an optical computer 1,000 times as fast as the most advanced of modern electronic supercomputers. AT&T took a significant step toward that faraway goal in June by producing the first optical equivalent of a transistor. The Japanese, meanwhile, are developing a hybrid microchip that combines the most efficient aspects of electronics and optics. Declares Alan Huang, director of AT&T's optical computing project: "If we let the Japanese win, we might as well throw in the towel as far as computing is concerned...
...ensuing chain reaction has changed modern society. Over the span of 60 years, Bell Labs has generated 21,000 patents, one for each of the institution's working days and then some. More than mere inventions, the patents cover breakthroughs that have launched entire industries--developments such as the transistor, the solar cell and satellite TV. Meanwhile, scientists at Bell have raked in seven Nobel prizes and, in the process, inspired some legends...
...more vivid and more freighted with meaning in Tunis or Bogota than in Berlin or Ottawa. The explanation for pop's seductiveness seems less complicated in Senegal or Bangladesh: America is equated with prosperity and modernism, and pop connotes America. A Tina Turner song playing on the transistor can mitigate (even as it fosters) a Third Worlder's sense of backwater isolation. Charles Kasinga, the executive at McCann Erickson (Kenya) Ltd. in charge of the Coke account, practices applied semiotics. "There is a perceived way of life embedded in each bottle of Coke," Kasinga says. "Coke is modern, with...
Washington's fear of a bloodbath was not unfounded. Early Monday morning a crowd of Marcos supporters armed with batons and tear gas moved toward Camp Crame, where the reformers were gathered. Over transistor radios, Marcos was ! heard vowing, "We'll wipe them out. It is obvious they are committing a rebellion." And over Radio Veritas came Enrile's reply, "I am not going to surrender...