Top Highlights

• Morris Chang and Andy Grove were schoolboys in 1945, too young to have thought seriously about technology or politics.
• Of course, the idea of using devices to compute wasn’t new. People have flipped their fingers up and down since Homo sapiens first learned to count. The ancient Babylonians invented the abacus to manipulate large numbers, and for centuries people multiplied and divided by moving wooden beads back and forth across these wooden grids.