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The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Future of Silicon
If there was one material that suddenly disappeared from our world, it'd be silicon. Silicon is the beating heart of the smartphone and a semiconductor. Semiconductor physics is all about how you can sort of flavour silicon in different patterns. I'm just wondering if you're silicon and you can become part of a chip that powers a supercomputer, or you could becoming part of a fake boob. Like it's a real... That's the two lives of silicon, right there. It's a silicon, so that's different from what's your silicon is the boob.
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