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The best thing I’ve read this week, called Sand Castles in the print version of The New Yorker, about how the semiconductor industry depends on many small artisan-like companies around the world.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus:
And yet we take it for granted that we can build them. We shouldn’t. The chief determinant of that unlikely success has been not individual genius in the lab, or individual prowess in the boardroom, but collective planning and coördination at a breathtaking scale. Globalization has become tainted in our eyes, as if it necessarily constitutes a zero-sum enterprise. And its mercenary form—which is also its most common form—has indeed inflicted harm. But the global semiconductor supply chain reflects an alternative pathway. It has united its participants in the pursuit of something profoundly difficult that could not have been achieved in the absence of intercontinental solidarity.
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