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Integrated Circuits In 1958 Jack Kilby fashioned the first microchip out of a single slice of silicon (it had one transistor); in 1959 Robert Noyce figured out how to get all the electronics on a chip talking. The invention spawned Intel, along with a thriving computer industry...
...technologically backward or remote to rely on the Internet or on text messaging to gather information, form virtual communities, exchange and spread ideas, or just vent. Instead, it's radio?particularly talk radio?that is proving the channel of choice, not least because all you need is a simple transistor radio and a phone. A new generation of outspoken radio-show hosts are not only airing their own contrarian views but are allowing we, the people, to speak out. Asia's talk-radio programs are giving societies reared on authoritarian regimes and schooled more in discipline than dissent a chance...
Holt was known to be a wild card, a whimsical character who was reported to have once left the bullpen during a Crimson baseball game in order to fetch his transistor radio. Always a Hawaiian first, he would frequently wear Bermuda shorts and sandals around the Square regardless of weather conditions, and he generally tended to be almost too relaxed for comfort...
...Coaxial cable (1929) --Quartz clock (1930) --Transistor (1947) --Solar cell (1954) --Laser (1958) --Touch-Tone service...
...MOLECULAR AND DOT COMPUTERS Other exotic designs include the molecular computer and the quantum dot computer (which replace the silicon transistor with a single molecule and a single electron, respectively). But these approaches face formidable technical problems, such as mass-producing atomic wires and insulators. No viable prototypes yet exist...