Microchips For Millions

Author : Janice Lobo Sapigao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998179216
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microchips for Millions written by Janice Lobo Sapigao and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janice Sapigao, in this powerful and innovative debut, captures her mother's traumatic experience as an assembly line worker in Silicon Valley, as well as the larger social, economic, and environmental impacts of the high tech industry. The poems switch between English, Ilokano, and binary code, and between documentary, visual, ethnographic, and lyric modes. In our time of toxic exposure, labor exploitation, and gentrification, Sapigao shows us how poetry can be a site to protest injustice, affirm dignity, and maintain hope. [Craig Santos Perez]Note from the Author:This project complicates and juxtaposes the "clean" image of California's Silicon Valley. The northern part of Santa Clara County and east of the San Francisco Peninsula are often referred to as the Silicon Valley, home to many of the world's high technology companies. The boundaries of the Silicon Valley are not fixed; it is more a regional state of mind than a geographical location. As an ideal place of innovation and technological advancement, the Silicon Valley is not known for its exploitative nature of immigrant women workers who build it all - those like my mom.Through the use of binary code, my family's language, Ilokano; and personal observation, microchips for millions draws out the social layers of the microchip, which are central to the global economy. I color the moments and questions when a clear glitch in the collusion of personal, public, private and industrial matters presents itself. The industry in which she works allows her to create a livelihood that does not empower her or women like her to ask the questions that I raise in this text. This is for my mom.

Author : Jan Mazurek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263641
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Microchips written by Jan Mazurek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges the assumptions of U.S. policies designed to promote the competitiveness of domestic microchip makers. She argues that, although these initiatives focus on the economic effects of environmental regulation, they fail to acknowledge how economic and organizational changes within the industry collide with and often confound efforts to monitor and manage pollution from chemicals used in microchip manufacturing. Despite its reputation as a clean industry, microchip manufacturing is fraught with hazards. More than sixty dangerous acids, solvents, caustics, and gases are used to make microchips, and some of them are suspected to be carcinogens and/or reproductive toxins. Mazurek describes the environmental by-products of chipmaking, including soil contamination, air and water pollution, and damage to human health. Applying insights from economic geography to questions of how and where companies organize production, she shows how Silicon Valley played a pivotal role in the development of the microchip. Pairing federal environmental data with structural and geographic information on the six firms that continue to build wafer fabrication plants in the United States, she demonstrates how reorganization and relocation of manufacturing facilities divert attention from trends in toxic emissions and how they complicate public and private efforts to improve the industry's environmental performance. In the concluding chapter, Mazurek marshals her findings in a broader analysis of the expansion of global manufacturing and the resultant environmental problems.

Author : Nightboat Books
Publisher : Nightboat Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643621227
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like a Solid to a Shadow written by Nightboat Books and published by Nightboat Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Morgan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543460828
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New World Banking System written by D. Morgan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to be successful by any means necessary, Shawn becomes intruded by the world banking system, mastering bank-scamming techniques. He developed a small empire of fraud scandals never seen in the city of New York. Meeting Crystal while on one of his scamming adventures, they become like Bonnie and Clyde. Together, they form a major corporation called Quick PAA. Now in the corporate world, he meets a powerful senator whose son is a CEO bank executive. A secret meeting is called by an ex–government official who brings the nation’s top ten bank executives to one table, taking over the financial system, eliminating plastic credit and debit cards, using microchips that are inserted in the consumer’s hand, forming a system never seen before—the New World Banking System! Feds try to create a case with information given to them by a close friend of Shawn, which leads some elite higher-up wanting the data system codes of the NWBS. The only thing is Shawn is the only one with access to the codes. With the New World Banking System in order, family members are kidnapped, betrayal is at its highest level, and trillions of dollars are at stake, causing murder and mayhem.

Author : Katherine Albrecht
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452287669
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spychips written by Katherine Albrecht and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in your tennis shoe tracks your every move; chips woven into your clothing transmit the value of your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside your money to decide if you’re worth robbing. This isn’t science fiction; in a few short years, it could be a fact of life. Spychips takes readers into the frightening world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). While manufacturers and the government want you to believe that they would never misuse the technology, the future looks like an Orwellian nightmare when you consider the possibilities of surveillance and tracking these chips embody. Combining in-depth research with firsthand reporting, Spychips reveals how RFID technology, if left unchecked, could soon destroy our privacy, radically alter the economy, and open the floodgates for civil liberty abuses.

Author : Peter Van Zant
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071501398
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microchip Fabrication, 5th Ed. written by Peter Van Zant and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-06-09 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 book in the industry for more than 15 years! Utilizing a straightforward, math-free pathology, this is a novice-friendly guide to the semiconductor fabrication process from raw materials through shipping the finished, packaged device. Challenging quizzes and review summaries make this the perfect learning guide for technicians in training. * NEW chapter on nanotechnology * NEW sections on 300mm wafer processing * Processes and devices, and Green processing * Every chapter updated to reflect the latest processing techniques

Author : Fred Glass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288408
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Mission to Microchip written by Fred Glass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workersÕ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. WhatÕs the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout CaliforniaÕs history. The difficult task of the stateÕs labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among CaliforniaÕs diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.Ê

Author : Richard Clark
Publisher : Wattpad Books
ISBN 13 : 1989365663
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent written by Richard Clark and published by Wattpad Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.H.I.P.ing away at danger one mission at a time! Ten-year-old Nort McKrakken is a pint-sized computer genius and madcap inventor. Fourteen-year-old Chip Munson is his best friend and loyal guinea pig. When Nort creates C.H.I.P.—a microsized computer thingy—and sticks it on his best friend’s tooth, it turns Chip into a real-life secret agent. With Chip’s C.H.I.P. and Nort’s brain, the pair is ready for anything . . . even middle school. In the first My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent book, Nort and Chip take down an evil cheesemonger who is threatening to choke Vortville with an icky stink. But smelly cheese is nothing compared to Seth Mindwarp and his band of Freaky Fuzzies who want to take over the minds of all the kids at Fuzzy Con. Will our heroic duo be able to save the town again . . . or will Chip’s C.H.I.P. fritz out?

Author : Klaus Schwab
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 1524758876
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Klaus Schwab and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress.

Author : Stanley Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961672188
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microchip Manufacturing written by Stanley Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: