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Powering the Future: Why Microchips are the Building Blocks of Technological Advancement
Technology & science · 27 Apr 2023
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The global economy is defined by an invention every one of us uses every single day, almost without thinking about it: a technology integral not only to our daily lives but to military might and geopolitical strategy: a technology that advances so quickly there is even a famous rule to describe the pace of progress: Moore’s Law.
That technology is of course the microchip – and understanding both its history and its current importance to the global economy is vital to understanding the world of tomorrow.
How did Taiwan become the global epicentre of chip manufacturing – and what does the escalating tension between China and Taiwan mean for our global future?
Chris Miller
Author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip, Chris Miller has previously written three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He is also Associate Professor of International History at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University.
