Mody takes us inside Moore's Law to show us how progress in computing has been produced across decades through a complex intertwining of technological, government, academic, and corporate institutions. Evoking vivid stories of people and organizations, he uses the production and reproduction of Moore's Law as a lens into new understandings of the civilianization of computing and the reorganization of science in the US. -- Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School, University of Toronto; coauthor of Creative Destruction This book undertakes an ambitious project -- to frame the history of American scientific and engineering research in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through the unlikely lens of microelectronics. The Long Arm of Moore's Law frames our understanding of the trajectories of American (and global) science across the Cold War and post-Cold War divide with a sweeping perspective. A joy to read. -- Hyungsub Choi, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of Instrumental Community- Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press).
Mody's book offers a wide range of important issues providing food
for thought on the R&D behind our modern systems. Amid the
different models of innovation, and approaches to technology
management, civilianisation was as pertinent to the advent of
semiconductors as it is today.
*New Scientist*
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