Weekend Thought: Our Material Abundance
Posted in Standards of Living on Mar 24th, 2012
From a story on the Memristor: When Bell Telephone Laboratories announced the invention of the transistor in 1948, the press release boasted that “more than a hundred of them can easily be held in the palm of the hand.” Today, you can hold more than 100 billiontransistors in your hand. What’s more, those transistors cost less […]
