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...miracle chip represents a quantum leap in the technology of mankind, a development that over the past few years has acquired the force and significance associated with the development of hand tools or the discovery of the steam engine. Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from men's muscles and enormously expanded productivity, so the microcomputer is rapidly assuming huge burdens of drudgery from the human brain and thereby expanding the mind's capacities in ways that man has only begun to grasp. With the chip, amazing feats of memory and execution become possible...
...Vleck did not receive the Nobel Prize for a particular discovery, but for "highly valuable contributions" in a career that spanned three decades. He is known as the "father of modern magnetism," the first physicist to apply the theory of quantum mechanics to magnets...
...first American to write a Ph.D. thesis on quantum theory, a topic suggested to him by Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics Emeritus and Van Vleck's mentor...
...created by the rule was a "pain in the ass" for Joe. "It was something I was prepared for--provided the freshman program was at least competitive--and it wasn't. I am no better now than I was when I left high school, and I should be a quantum leap better...
British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...