“For many years sociologists and others have written of a #ComputerRevolution, impending or in progress. Some enthusiasts have declared that the small inexpensive computer inaugurated a new phase of this upheaval, which would make computers instruments of egalitarianism.
By the late seventies, practically every organization in America had come to rely upon #computers, and ordinary citizens were buying them for their homes. Within some organizations small bands of professionals had exercised absolute authority over #computing, and the proliferation of small computers did weaken their positions.
But in the main, computers altered techniques and not intentions and in many cases served to increase the power of executives on top and to prop up venerable institutions. A more likely place to look for radical change was inside the industry actually producing computers. Generally, that industry grew very big and lively, largely because of a single invention.” — #TracyKidder, ‘The Soul of a New Machine’
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics, the researchers said.
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