Re: CNN's top 25 innovations

From: Ben Bradley (ben_nospam_bradley_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 01/09/05


Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:00:30 GMT

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:31:11 +0100, Joop
<l_o_u_s_take_most_away@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>toor@iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote:
>

>>I guess semiconductor/transistor technology.
>>
>>John
>Actually, some other organisation that issued a top ten had the
>integrated circuit on number one. Without that invention half of the
>others on the CNN list would not exist.

   And of course that was also much longer than 25 years ago, not many
years after the transistor. Moore stated his law in the 1960's.

>Joop

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