NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Eye Strain, Immanence, The Plain Truth
8 Dec 2013
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Part 1 of lecture: the future of the transistor. All too often we tend to take for granted the technology that they find. The transistor has and will continue to become smaller and smaller so that millions can now be placed on a silicon wafer no larger than your thumb nail. However, for a number of reasons, this reduction in size will eventually come to an end. That is, there will come a time when the laws of physics are such as to prevent/prohibit transistors from becoming any smaller. What"s the point in learning what a transistor is or what it. Does, or how a chip is made? around them. We read books without concerning ourselves with how the books are printed. We watch television, listen to the radio, take elevators and drive our cars, heedless of the technology that allows us to do these things.
