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"It is an ancient valve radio, the kind that works not with transistors but with vacuum tubes. I am sitting on a small stool immediately behind an old Italian who wears a hat and is dressed as if it were still winter although it is warm in the room—and getting warmer by the minute. The Italian—a renowned psychic who considers himself not a commercial medium but a serious psychic researcher—is Marcello Bacci. For the past forty years he has been hearing voices through his radio and has become convinced that they are the voices of people who have passed away." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"As successive generations of computers moved from the switching of relays to the switching of vacuum tubes to the switching of transistors (and soon, possibly, to the switching of molecules, or even atoms), computers have very rapidly decreased in size, and equally rapidly increased in power. A laptop of the 1990s has more memory, more flexibility, more functions, and more versatility (and is far faster) than the computers of 1960, which typically required about 2,000 square feet of space just to house them." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The layering of the skin is similar to the layering of the different elements that are used to make capacitors, condensers, transistors, and flashlight batteries. The langerhans cells are located between basal cells and prickel cells. They have dendrites which give them the potential to transmit and are our bodies' biologic solar energy cells. We, just like a pot of geraniums, need direct sunlight for good health. An interesting and controversial study was carried out in a Sarasota, Florida grade school at Ott's suggestion." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Surface science had proved to be the key to solid-state electronics, because all the phenomena that make devices like transistors and diodes work happen at the interfaces between different kinds of semiconductor materials. Surface scientists had created a whole technology to keep things clean and deposit thin, controlled layers of stuff on them, which continues today in the giant chip-manufacturing factories that make the electronics our lives depend on." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Technology. transistors are the tiny electronic devices that provide the brains and the memory in computers. Around 1965 Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, cofound-ers of the Intel Corporation and pioneers in integrated circuits ("chips"), predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a chip would double every year and a half. If anything, that prediction has turned out to be too conservative." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.) "By 1990, the industry-standard Intel chip contained approximately half a million transistors in about the same space that a single transistor occupied when semiconductor devices first became commercially available in the 1950s. Intel has announced its vision of what they hope will be the industry-standard microprocessor chip of the year 2000. They expect to be producing a chip that contains 100 million transistors." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"Today's state-of-the-art Pentium chip contains 3 million transistors crammed into a 1-inch square.5 The rate of technological change continues to accelerate. Whole industries are being wiped out in the blink of an eye. Compact disks obliterated the multibillion-dollar vinyl record industry in less than ten years. Fuel injection and other digital systems made conventional car repair obsolete. The same story is being repeated in every industry. Success in today's turbulent new economy is won not by those who have learned a particular skill but by those who can learn new skills quickly." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"Why does Japan now dominate the world market for transistorized electronic consumer products, to a degree that damages the United States's balance of payments with Japan, even though transistors were invented and patented in the United States? Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products. Why were British cities still using gas street lighting into the 1920s, long after U.S." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Intel released the Pentium 4 in 2000; it contained the equivalent of 42 million transistors, and operated at speeds up to 1.5 Ghz. AMD and Other Competitors While Intel dominated the market for microprocessor chips, it wasn't the only manufacturer out there. Intel's chief competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was founded in 1969, and for the next 20 years produced microprocessors for proprietary devices. In 1991 AMD decided to challenge Intel in the personal computer marketplace with its AM386 microprocessor, which competed head-to-head with Intel's 80386 chip." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Also released in 1982, the 80286 contained the equivalent of 134,000 transistors. The 80286 was succeeded by the 80386 in 1985, and the 80486 in 1989. The Hardware: IBM IBM, with its history of mainframe computing, legitimized the personal computing industry. IBM wasn't a fly-by-night company, and it didn't sell kits for hobbyists; it sold a ready-to-use, relatively easy-to-use, fully functioning computer through traditional retail stores—and was a name that consumers could trust. The Original IBM PC IBM released its first personal computer—called, simply enough, the IBM PC—in August 1981." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "The 8080 was an 8-bit processor that was 10 times faster than the 8008, and contained the equivalent of 6,000 transistors. It was this chip that led to the development of the world's first personal computers. IBM System/370 IBM quickly capitalized on the miniaturization enabled by the development of the microprocessor. In 1971 IBM released the System/370 family of computers, the first mainframe machines to be powered by microprocessor chips." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"If this trend continues, soon individual electronic logic gates (the decision points that once upon a time were clumsy transistors) will be down to the size of atoms and currents will be measured in terms of the number of electrons which move. There is no theoretical reason this cannot come about; it is merely a question of the present technical difficulties. The problem is that, when computer systems are so small, reliability reaches its practical limit. Nano-electronics operations become subject to disruption by 'noise' or extraneous interference." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

"Epi-blog" In the technology industry, Gordon Moore, of Intel, predicted in 1965 that the amount of transistors on a computer microchip, which is directly proportional to its processing power, would double every couple of years. And "Moore's Law" has continued to hold to this day as chip speeds have doubled nearly every other year. I believe that the same law applies to the "database" of scientific knowledge that continues to grow exponentially. In fact, I know that I read somewhere that it to doubles about every eighteen months." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"They include peaceful trade (as in the spread of transistors from the United States to Japan in 1954), espionage (the smuggling of silkworms from Southeast Asia to the Mideast in a.d. 552), emigration (the spread of French glass and clothing manufacturing techniques over Europe by the 200,000 Huguenots expelled from France in 1685), and war. A crucial case of the last was the transfer of Chinese papermaking techniques to Islam, made possible when an Arab army defeated a Chinese army at the battle of Talas River in Central Asia in a.d." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

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