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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce

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America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution. With the advent of the silicon chip, information processing, communications, and the national economy have been strikingly altered. The new technology is changing how we live, how we work, how we think. The revolution didn't just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people, principally Middle Americans, whose horizons were as unlimited as the Iowa sky. collectively, they engineered Tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce. Tom Wolfe The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley First published in Esquire Magazine, December 1983, Copyright© by Tom Wolfe. Reproduced by Permission of International Creative Management. For academic use only. In 1948 there were seven thousand people in Grinnell, Iowa, including more than one who didn't dare take a drink in his own house without pulling the shades down first. It was against the law to sell liquor in Grinnell, but it was perfectly legal t

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce Esquire Magazine,, December 1983, pp. 346-374 . America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution. With the advent of the silicon chip, information processing, communications, and the national economy have been strikingly altered. The new technology is changing how we live, how we work, how we think. The revolution didn't just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people, principally Middle Americans, whose horizons were as unlimited as the Iowa sky. collectively, they engineered Tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce. Tom Wolfe Th

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