Materials are fascinating! and are so ever present and deep-seated in every culture, that societal advancements have been determined by its members’ abilities to produce, and manipulate materials in order to fill needs.
Early civilizations such as the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age have been designated by the level of their materials.
Today’s Silicon Age or information age is so revolutionary that practically everyone we come in contact with has supercomputer in their pocket.
The Silicon Age dates back to 1959 with the invention of the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), and gives today’s members access to mass amounts of information in literally seconds.
