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10 Weekend Reads
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How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life During the century since the end of the Great Influenza outbreak, the average human life span has doubled. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than this. If you were to publish a newspaper that came out just once a century, the banner headline surely would or should be the declaration of this incredible feat. But of course, the story of our extra life span almost never appears on the front page of our actual daily newspapers, because the drama and heroism that have given us those additional years are far more evident in hindsight than they are in the moment. That is, the story of our extra life is a story of progress in its usual form: brilliant ideas and collaborations unfolding far from the spotlight of public attention, settin
Pat Gelsinger, the new CEO of Intel. Photograph: Yuya Shino/Reuters
Pat Gelsinger, the new CEO of Intel. Photograph: Yuya Shino/Reuters
Sat 10 Apr 2021 11.00 EDT
It’s a truism that it takes a long time for a supertanker to change course; even if the captain spots trouble ahead it may be too late to avoid it. For the last few years, that’s the metaphor that has come to mind whenever Intel was mentioned. For as long as most of us can remember, it has been the lumbering supertanker of the silicon chip business because its central processing units (CPUs) powered most computers.