Simon Brooke on Nostr: if we are to continue to use things which are based on the semiconductor property of ...

if we are to continue to use things which are based on the semiconductor property of pure silicon, we're going to have to find other ways — which may not be economic in today's economy — to purify it.

If there are any.

This feels personal to me. For me, computers have been a liberatory technology — one that transformed a child who could not write into a highly skilled practitioner of a valuable craft. Without them, my life would have been much poorer — in every sense of that word.