Microchips for Millions

Microchips for Millions
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Total Pages : 75
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ISBN-10 : 0998179213
ISBN-13 : 9780998179216
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Microchips for Millions by : Janice Lobo Sapigao

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.

Making Microchips

Making Microchips
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 0262263645
ISBN-13 : 9780262263641
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Making Microchips by : Jan Mazurek

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.

Like a Solid to a Shadow

Like a Solid to a Shadow
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Publisher : Nightboat Books
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 164362122X
ISBN-13 : 9781643621227
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

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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:

Spychips

Spychips
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780452287662
ISBN-13 : 0452287669
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Spychips by : Katherine Albrecht

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.

From Mission to Microchip

From Mission to Microchip
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 542
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ISBN-10 : 9780520288409
ISBN-13 : 0520288408
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis From Mission to Microchip by : Fred Glass

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

The Chip

The Chip
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780307432032
ISBN-13 : 0307432033
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Chip by : T.R. Reid

Download or read book The Chip written by T.R. Reid and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T.R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.

Moong Over Microchips

Moong Over Microchips
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Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9789353050061
ISBN-13 : 9353050065
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Moong Over Microchips by : Venkat Iyer

Download or read book Moong Over Microchips written by Venkat Iyer and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venkat Iyer was living a fast-paced life in the IT world in Mumbai when he decided to stop and take a long, hard look at where he was headed. Disheartened by his stressful existence in the city, he decided to give it all up and take up organic farming in a small village near Mumbai. But it wasn't easy. With no experience in agriculture, his journey was fraught with uncertainty. He soon went from negotiating tough clients, strict deadlines and traffic to looking forward to his first bumper crop of moong. As he battled erratic weather conditions and stubborn farm animals, he discovered a world with fresh air and organic food, one where he could lead a more wholesome existence. At times hilarious, and other times profound, this book follows his extraordinary story.