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We are as gods - by Misha Saul - Kvetch

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

In 1947, a transistor was the size of a small child’s hand. In 1971, twenty-four years later, the transistors in a microprocessor were just ten microns wide, a tenth of the diameter of a human hair. The most proprietary and commercially sensitive aspect of the blades, aside from the complex geometry of the hundreds of tiny pinholes, is the fact that the blades are grown from, incredibly, a single crystal of metallic nickel alloy. It was a firm of venture capitalists named that took the gamble… Lancelot Law Whyte, who confessed to “falling in love at first sight” with the young officer……

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