https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3378121 the preprint has been out for a couple months but my first peer reviewed journal article is out today in its finished polished form and I am still pretty happy with it
I realize this paper topic is so so tiny, the epitome of a niche academic question, but it truly blows my mind that everyone knows about the rocks full of blood in computers today and there's so little record or acknowledgement of the rocks full of blood that made computers possible. I wanted to fix that!
@mcc happy to send a copy, but yeah I meant rhetorically the suffering in extractive industries sorry for confusion
got it, thanks!
Read about a page & half, then was hit with two thoughts: This looks like it's going to be right up my alley (history of fuzed quartz? yes please), but also I could blow a huge hole in my midday schedule (I often don't have one, but today I do!)
Hoping to dig in later.
ok, I finished it!
I could go in all sorts of directions with this.
I have no idea though which might interest you more, so I'll start at the biggest thing that occurs to me, which is the similarity between the reduction of silicon dioxide, or water, or of rust to get chip-fab silicon, hydrogen gas, or iron.
As it happens, reading up a little on silicon production yesterday connects these three reduced elements in ways that surprised me, by way of a material called ferrosilicon.
@ingrid and you did :)
@ingrid This looks super fascinating, congratulations on the publication!
The IEEE charges $33 to read this article, so I may not be reading this at this exact time >_> but while I look for a way to read it, I am curious to ask for clarification: When you say "the rocks full of blood" do you mean "the rocks which resulted in a great deal of human death and suffering to mine" or like literally that there were some rocks that had blood added to them for some chemical reason