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Now the Chips Are Down

Gives a history of the silicon chip microprocessor, showing how microprocessors are made and discussing readers for the blind, computer-driven tractors, robots on the assembly line, word processors, and computer games. Suggests many ways that silicon chip technology may further change industry, medicine, recreation, agriculture, and communications. Examines the rise of the software industry, and its projected importance. Poses possible problems of large scale automation, including displacement and unemployment, and concludes that the effect on quality of life must be weighed carefully with the possible misuse of the new technology.
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, Gives a history of the silicon chip microprocessor, showing how microprocessors are made and discussing readers for the blind, computer-driven tractors, robots on the assembly line, word processors, and computer games. Suggests many ways that silicon chip technology may further change industry, medicine, recreation, agriculture, and communications. Examines the rise of the software industry, and its projected importance. Poses possible problems of large scale automation, including displacement and unemployment, and concludes that the effect on quality of life must be weighed carefully with the possible misuse of the new technology.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q7065936 ↗ — country, genre

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