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The world today - from the telephone in your pocket to the automobile that you drive, the allure of cultural media to the strategy of the Pentagon - has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Every year, for half a century, these very small switches have empowered ever-more startling capacities. Their outstanding proliferation has transformed the span of human history as significantly as any politics or social trend. In the centre of it all has been one noiseless Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore - a chemist turned gadgets entrepreneur - had the defining perception: silicon transistors, and microchips manufactured from them, will make gadgets profoundly cheap and hugely powerful. Microchips could twin in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. Record has borne out this perception, which we have now call "Moore's Legislation", and Moore himself, having known it, performed endlessly to realize his vision. With Moore's technological authority at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Firm, the law has performed for 50 years. The result is serious: from the days of tremendous, clunky computer systems of limited capability to our new period, in which computer systems are placed almost everywhere from within our anatomies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing at all short of a revolution. In Moore's Legislation, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative consideration of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative solutions developed there. Told by the team of authors with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human tale of man and a career that have had almost superhuman results. The history of 20th-century technology is full of overblown "revolutions". Moore's Legislation is essential listening for anybody wanting to learn what a real revolution appears like.
