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Jack S. Kilby, inventor (along with Robert Noyce) of the computer chip, died recently.
In today's WSJ (subscription required), columnist Evan Ramstad memorializes the achievement:
Neither he nor Robert Noyce nor any of their peers could have understood at the time the genie they were letting loose. . . .
[T]he inventors viewed it chiefly as a solution to a technical problem. . . . [But]it changed nations and economies . . . lifting basic services, living standards, and education in a cycle that continues today.
posted by James DeLong @ 9:19 AM | General
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