Crystal Fire¶
Riordan, & Hoddeson. (1997). Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age. W. W. Norton & Company.
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Domain-specific¶
- Technology Push
- Canonical cases are post-war US basic-research programmes (the transistor, GPS, ARPANET) developed in the absence of a specified civilian application; corporate central labs (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC) funded to develop general capabilities without product mandates; and platform-substrate technologies (CRISPR, deep-learning toolkits, the laser) that arrived with vague or no application targets and were subsequently matched to specific use cases over years or decades
This sourceA history of the transistor's invention at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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“Fire recounts the story of the transistor team at [Bell] Labs headed up by William Shockley who shared the”
- Canonical cases are post-war US basic-research programmes (the transistor, GPS, ARPANET) developed in the absence of a specified civilian application; corporate central labs (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC) funded to develop general capabilities without product mandates; and platform-substrate technologies (CRISPR, deep-learning toolkits, the laser) that arrived with vague or no application targets and were subsequently matched to specific use cases over years or decades
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