It is just amazing how technology turns what we call as 'dirt' ;-) into something we use so much in our daily lives that some cannot think living without it!!
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/how-sand-is-transformed-into-silicon-chips-599785
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/how-sand-is-transformed-into-silicon-chips-599785?artc_pg=2
It took me sometime though to realize that there are some unwanted byproducts too to this process - the core silicon production involves a lot of CO2 release into the atmosphere. And I am not even considering the acidic products used in this procedure and what it takes to create them in the first place and what effects their byproducts have.
Sigh ... after all it is a human engineered product and one we take for granted without thinking much about what we are doing to the environment!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090517-pollution-changes-dna.html
Unless we do something right and fast, we will end up annihiliating the human race (and possibly all organic life) from planet Earth which has nurtured life for billions of years, that is till now.
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