Technology and Culture

The article is written by W. Patrick McCray about the technology and the culture it is in. Two European scientists discovered tiny changes in the magnetism that it can unexpectedly produce strong electrical signals. This became to be giant magnetoresistance also known as GMR. GMR revolutionized the electronic industry as it had the ability to produce computer disk drives to store ever-increasing amounts of data. Peter Grunberg and Albert Fert were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences and they were the two European people who used their laboratory research in what is today's electronic gadgets to having what we have like the ipod. This would not be possible if these guys didn't research what they did to come up with the stuff they did in these electronic device we have today. Other research people took what Grunberg and Fert had discovered and developed that idea into what is called the spintronics. The spintronics is what will become the nanotechnolgy in the later years. as the spintronic become better that the people in this research are able to come up with computer memory that is made small yet it can hold a lot of data.

- Justin Kwan