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Since reading Chris Miller’s “Chip War” last year I can’t stop thinking about this. The phone I’m writing this on is alien technology. Chips made by etching patterns so small they can’t even be seen by visible light, using lasers created by heating tin to the surface temperature of the sun.

I’ve started to believe that technology’s biggest bottleneck in 2025 is human creativity. And that’s not even to say we aren’t creative! We absolutely are, but the sheer scale of the tiny little chips in our pockets is mind boggling.

Okay after this description I'm sold on this book. Technology is truly amazing and I don't appreciate it nearly enough.

I had no idea. We just bought our daughter an Apple M4 Max yesterday. She needs it for her tech design program. That’s all I have to add. Also tech is amazing. I wish we could use it for good. These past few months haven’t given me much hope for tech to be a force for good.

There is a massive amount of good that has tech to thank, it’s not quite as doom and gloom as it looks on the face of it.

I know. I’m just feeling doomy and gloomy now. I work in oncology. The advances in understanding and treating cancer could never have been achieved without tech.