One Digital Day: How the Microchip Is Changing Our World - Hardcover

Smolan, Rick; Erwitt, Jennifer

 
9780812930313: One Digital Day: How the Microchip Is Changing Our World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812930312 ISBN 13: 9780812930313
Verlag: Times Books, 1998

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In more than two hundred commanding color photographs, the creator of the popular Day in the Life books and one hundred of the world's most talented photojournalists capture the impact of microprocessors on everyday lives around the world. 30,000 first printing.

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In 1991, photojournalist Rick Smolan and his partner Jennifer Erwitt founded Against All Odds Productions, a multimedia publisher specializing in large-scale photographic projects that combine compelling storytelling with state-of-the-art technology.   A former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer, Smolan had previously created the bestselling Day in the Life photography series.  More than three million copies of his Day in the Life books are in print, and one of them, A Day in the Life of America, spent more than a year on the New York Times Bestseller List.<br><br>The first interactive project released by Against All Odds was From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback.  It gained international recognition as the first illustrated book ever to include an interactive CD-ROM dis

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in history has spread so quickly throughout the world, or revolutionized so many aspects of human existence, as the microchip. Little more than a quarter century since its invention, there are now nearly 15 billion microchips in use worldwide -- the equivalent of two powerful computers for every man, woman, and child on the planet. The microprocessor is not only changing the products we use, but also the way we live, and, ultimately, the way we perceive reality. <br><br><b>ONE DIGITAL DAY</b> is the result of a unique project designed to make people aware of the thousands of microprocessors we unknowingly encounter every day. Rick Smolan, creator of the award-winning Day in the Life photography books and the bestseller 24 Hours in Cyberspace, sent 100 of the world's most talented photojournalists around the globe on July 11, 1997. Their mission: to depict intimate and emotional stories of how this tiny chip -- a square of silicon the size of a fingernail, weighing less than a p

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Twenty years ago, while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, I was on a chairlift
with a fellow skier. As we rose up above the valley, we talked about
what we did for a living. I explained to her that I made microchips and
I tried to describe what they were and what they did. But the more I
said the more puzzled she became. Finally, I pointed to my digital
watch, a new fangled gadget at the time, and I explained that inside was
a chip-a sliver of silicon-keeping the time and changing the digits. She
still looked confused, so I politely changed the subject.

Recently I thought about how much the world has changed since that
chairlift conversation, and I found myself looking for a tangible way to
demonstrate the remarkable and often invisible ways in which
microchips-microprocessors, microcontrollers and memory chips-are now
woven into the fabric of life in many corners of the world.

To mark the occasion of Intel's thirtieth anniversary and to capture the
incredible impact microprocessors have had on everyday life, Intel
decided to sponsor the book you are holding in your hands. Last July, on
an ordinary day, 100 of the world's leading photojournalists were sent to
every corner of the globe to capture the human face of the computer
revolution during a single 24-hour period. This book is the result: an
extraordinary visual time capsule.

As you turn these pages, you'll see a world being reshaped by technology
in ways previously unthinkable. For one thing, the photographs show the
effect of the millions of personal computers now in use. Increasingly,
these computers are connected in networks, which are in turn linked to
form what is rapidly becoming a global nervous system. World news,
personal correspondence, educational pursuits, music, art and business
now flow seamlessly through this network, merging Detroit, Dakar and
Delhi into one place.

But microprocessors are also penetrating and improving existing products
of every conceivable kind. Today's cars, for example, have numerous
microprocessors tucked away inside of them to control brakes, lock doors
and to remind you to fasten your seat belt. Microprocessors are in toys
and thermostats; in cellular phones and automatic teller machines. They
change how existing products function and allow the creation of new ones.
In the aggregate, they change how we live, how we work, how we entertain
ourselves and how we are able to imagine-and thus create-the world our
children will inherit.

We've come a long way from the time when a digital watch was the best
example I had to explain the microchip. Intel's sixty-thousand plus
employees are proud of the pivotal roles we have played in the history of
the computer revolution. We hope you will enjoy this photographic record
of an ordinary day in the life of the microprocessor.

Andy Grove
Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation

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Verlag
Times Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812930312
ISBN 13 
9780812930313
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
223
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Smolan Rick, Erwitt Jennifer
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