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ollective apathy about working conditions behind iPods, iPhones and the like has allowed the company to prioritize speed and profit over decent treatment of people.

"You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards," a current Apple executive told the Times. "And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China."

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one day we'll hit the physical limits of how small traditional transistors can be. That's because once you hit the nanoscale, you're dealing with the bizarre world of quantum mechanics. In this world, matter and energy behave in ways that seem counterintuitive.

Electron tunneling is a bit like teleportation. When material is very thin -- the thickness of a single nanometer (about 10 atoms thick) -- electrons can tunnel right through it as if it weren't there at all.

beyond the nanoscale is the atomic scale, where you're dealing with materials that are only a few atoms in size.

it might mean that the advancements in microprocessor development will slow down and level off.

companies will likely find ways to improve microprocessor efficiency and performance, nonetheless.

It seems like microprocessor manufacturers will only be able to keep Moore's Law going for a few more years

Quality improves when more of the work that goes into a final product is done by people who are good at it.

The improvement is even greater when, as with TopCoder projects, people who are good at work compete with one another to get it.

power of the online “open innovation marketplace”

another major benefit of hyperspecialization: speed.

More generally, hyperspecialization can reduce clock time by assigning related tasks to different people who then accomplish them in parallel rather than serially.