Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies program. He is the author of Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology and The Long Arm of Moore's Law: Microelectronics and American Science (both published by the MIT Press).

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures xiii
1 Society in Disarray? Professional Societies and Physics in the 1970s 1
2 Turn On, Tune In, Start Up: The Experimental Life in Santa Barbara 53
3 A Federation of Bull Sessions: Interdisciplinarity at Stanford 93
4 Nothing Fails like Success: From Moon to Earth at NASA 135
5 Mistaking the Sunset for the Dawn: Jack Kilby's Solar Boom and Bust 177
6 An End to Exceptionalism: Philips, Signetics, and Global Silicon Valley 219
7 Engineering and Applied Physics in the Age of Fracture 259
Notes 313
Index 389