How the Information Revolution Remade Business and the Economy

Preface

Thomas Kuhn in his fascinating book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) had coined the term “paradigm shift.” In that volume, he described that the scientific communities function within a paradigm, largely making incremental advances within that shared understood paradigm until there is a sudden and unpredictable shift to a new model or paradigm. The progress of Moore’s law has had an unprecedented impact not just on the progress of the U.S. semiconductor industry but on the broader U.S. economy. An observation of Gordon E. Moore has played an important role in driving the roadmap for the growth of the semiconductor industry for the last half a century and has turned out to be one of the most transformative events in human ...