Arthur Hanson
Well-known member
The semi ecosystem has become the key to human progress at all levels. Semis of all types have lowered the cost of research dramatically from sensors, controls, lab and test equipment of every type and description to computational resources. Combine this to collaborate on a worldwide scale the net has brought to collaboration and you have to keys to ever accelerating progress. But just like any other power it is subject to abuse and even outright fraud. Earlier this year I published a forum in a high end business publication after they reviewed it for six weeks on the severe problems with US medical and when I went back to the web found much had been scrubbed or greatly pushed down in searches at what must have been great cost. This shows the double-edged sword of applying advanced technologies to collaboration and how we must adapt to using them. Our modern ecosystems are like any other, great promise is also subject to abuse and careful judgement must be applied to any actions. Carefully curated sites with a dedicated user base as SemiWiki, offer the best solution in curation and discourse to get the most accurate information and results. Carefully choosing the best models and sites will be key in anybody that wants to use the resources we are now learning to work with. One this is certain is that progress in just about everything both good and bad is accelerating at an ever-increasing rate and ever greater care and procedures must be used. Trust is everything and must only be given when earned. Just as the sophistication of everything is advancing so are scams and fraud.