Interesting. And that actually, if I remember correctly, that's the middle of the book, that chapter, right? It's approximately the middle. And then that's where you, sort of as a reader, you say, wow, you know, I've never put that much thought into what goes into these engines on which I relied to fly from here to there. And then we get to the satellite and we get to the microprocessor and the transistors. What was that research like for you? I mean, the last chapter is, I can't even remember the number off the top of my head. It was, I mean, I couldn't even say it out, the tolerance level. I have it here for the microprocessor. What did you learn about, I guess what I'm thinking is, we've experienced this exponential rate of change in society and we attribute it to Moore's law and to the microprocessor. But what the book also does is it shows that this is a trend that started before that really, right? Because there is an exponential trend that occurs in terms of our level of precise (25/57)
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