Watching Guide for "Making Stuff Smaller", from 9:27 to 18:41

1. What is a transistor?  ____________________________________________   What did it make possible? ____________________
   
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2. The only language that computers understand is _____________________________________________.
   
   
3. How many values can one switch represent?  ___________
   
   
4. How many switches do you need to represent the text on a page? _______________  How about for a second of music? ___________
   
   
5. What makes using transistor switches so much better than mechanical switches? _____________________________________
   
   
6. How many switches (transistors) were on the one-inch chip that the host looks that? _____________________________
   
   
7. What did Gordon Moore predict in the 1960s? _________________________________________________________ 
   
   What is this prediction called? __________________________________
   
   
8. What happens if you try to make transistors too small and pack them too close together?
   
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9. What is the IBM engineer growing in her high-tech oven? ______________________________