## Metadata - Author: [[John Markoff]] - Full Title: What the Dormouse Said - Category: #books ## Highlights - Although the integrated circuit was first demonstrated at the Institute of Radio Engineers show in early 1959 by Texas Instruments, the more significant “planar” process used in making silicon chips was developed independently at about the same time by a group of engineers in Mountain View, California, at Fairchild Semiconductor, a small start-up firm that had been founded in 1957 with a $1.5 million investment from Fairchild Camera and Instrument. ([Location 524](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000OCXFYM&location=524)) - In any case, although Fred Moore Jr.’s protest ended prematurely, some 1,300 students signed his petition. But his action had a far deeper impact. It was, in effect, a prelude to the Free Speech Movement, which would not take place for another five years. In fact, Fred Moore’s solitary sit-in was in many ways the opening political act of the sixties. ([Location 932](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000OCXFYM&location=932)) - As the sixties began, the three separate threads that each of the men profiled in this chapter represented came together. Doug Engelbart had a clear vision of using computing to help mankind by augmenting human intelligence; Myron Stolaroff was wandering around Johnny Appleseed–style with a new drug he believed would enhance engineering creativity as well as human spirituality; and Fred Moore had set out on a pacifist’s crusade to end war by putting his body on the line. ([Location 955](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000OCXFYM&location=955))