The rise of semiconductor electronics, and the underlying manufacturing technology for them, is among the most important developments in world history of the past half-century. Integrated circuits-silicon chips-have transformed communication, transportation, commerce, military force, and culture. Clearly, insights into the dynamics that have brought us this silicon revolution are vital to our understanding of the world today and our common future. This new book places the silicon revolution in a broad context and charts Gordon Moore's development of his eponymous law across its 40-year life. Over the past four decades, Moore's law has served as a remarkable guide to the dynamics of the silicon revolution. With the proliferation of silicon chips into nearly every aspect of contemporary life, Moore's law is increasingly looked to as a bellwether for the whole of technological development.
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Gordon Moore made a prediction forty years ago that was partly prescient and partly prescriptive. The fulfillment of his prediction has restructured the global nature of human society, the way we work, oursource, wage war, communicate, politicize, socialize, and even love. What a treat, then, to have in a single volume both his original publication and his analysis forty years later of how the fulfillment came about. -- Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Important Insights into Moore's Law--the metric of our age. -- Carver Mead, Recipient, 2002 National Medal of Technology
Looking back today, Moore and other information revolution pioneers, who contributed to this clearly written volume, realize that Moore's law applies not simply to electronics but generally to technological change in our era. -- Thomas Hughes, Author of ‘Human-Built World' and ‘American Genesis'
Required Reading. -- Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation
Important Insights into Moore's Law--the metric of our age. -- Carver Mead, Recipient, 2002 National Medal of Technology
Looking back today, Moore and other information revolution pioneers, who contributed to this clearly written volume, realize that Moore's law applies not simply to electronics but generally to technological change in our era. -- Thomas Hughes, Author of ‘Human-Built World' and ‘American Genesis'
Required Reading. -- Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation
About the Author
David C. Brock is a Senior Research Fellow with the Chemical Heritage Foundation. As a historian of science and technology, he specializes in oral history, the history of instrumentation, and the history of semiconductor science, technology, and industry.
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