& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-19 We: First: Back in The Day, at the end of the 1980s, when we were pushing for a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe—arguing that the United States should be willing to spend 1/10 of what we had spent on the Cold War in providing aid for infrastructure and institutional development, so that Eastern Europe could have a very good post-communism—there were widely variable opinions about the likelihood of success (with or without a Marshall Plan equivalent). I remember Rudi Dornbush occasionally letting his hair down, sighing, and stating that the division-of-labor would have to be broken down and then built up again, person-by-person, workshop-by-workshop, and that it would be very long and painful. But even he thought that it would be ultimately successful, and in the end Eastern Europe would re-join what the first Marshall Plan had enabled the Western European norm to become. I think Noah Smith's assessment, 30 years on, of what has happened is by-and-large correct...
My daughter worked for his wife at his house in Los Altos Hills. Generous and interesting couple. Then Wilf's wife died and he sold the house to another fellow I have met, Doug Leoni.
Interesting arc of my life where the coming things to do were space and atomic power. Two dead ends of my life.
The video of the fall in the Japanese dominance in chip fab machines noted VLSI which jogged my memory of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Corrigan founder of LSI.
My daughter worked for his wife at his house in Los Altos Hills. Generous and interesting couple. Then Wilf's wife died and he sold the house to another fellow I have met, Doug Leoni.
Interesting arc of my life where the coming things to do were space and atomic power. Two dead ends of my life.
As Feyman said: There is a lot of room at the bottom. https://www.facebook.com/NanoMalaysiaBerhad/photos/the-father-of-nanotechnologydo-you-know-who-is-the-father-of-nanotechnology-nano/2553887951424501/