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Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes

What's Your Problem?

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What Was the Second Most Important Technology of the Last 50 Years?

Zinnis: I would put the founding of TSMC next to many of the other key innovations of the 20th century but it wasn't a Nobel Prize winning innovation even though it was arguably more important than many that have one Nobel Prize. What was the second most important technology of the last 50 years? Well maybe this is a cop-out answer but I think the development of the software that takes advantage of chips. Maybe genetic engineering but we haven't seen it pay off yet. You know Zinnis, I'm beginning to explore genetic engineering as a potential topic for my next book.

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