"Son, Thy Sins..."
According to the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, the global semiconductor market reached $256 billion due to a 3% growth year-on-year in terms of sales.
Accordingly, the global semiconductor material market grew by 14% to $42 billion. The breakdown of the global market into each region is as follows:
( http://www.semi.org/en/P043648 )
Everybody is using electronic goods nowadays all over the world, including cellular phones, personal computers, and TVs.
Electronic goods are equipped with various electronic components or chips made of semiconductor devices, in order to form electronic circuits which function and work following instructions from a user or a consumer.
Semiconductor devices are made of special materials called semiconductor materials.
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Semiconductor materials are insulators at absolute zero temperature that conduct electricity in a limited way at room temperature. The defining property of a semiconductor material is that it can be doped with impurities that alter its electronic properties in a controllable way.
Because of their application in devices like transistors (and therefore computers) and lasers, the search for new semiconductor materials and the improvement of existing materials is an important field of study in materials science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_materials
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Therefore, primarily, modern life of today worldwide is supported by semiconductor materials.
And, as you can confirm in the above figure, Japan is still No. 1 in this field.
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Pick up any proud man from Wall Street and ask him to draft the design of electronic circuits for any electronic goods.
He may be able to do it based on his knowledge of electronic engineering.
Ask him to draft the design for any electronic component or chip used in the electronic circuits.
He may be able to do it based on his knowledge of semiconductor science.
Ask him to draft the design for any semiconductor material to be developed for any semiconductor chip.
Probably, he cannot do it, since it can be only achieved through application of condensed matter physics which need non-nonsense efforts and investments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics
So, no proud men on Wall Street can design any of electronic goods or gears, while they are behaving like masters of those specialists, researchers, engineers, technicians, factory workers, and science students.
If only they admit that they are fools compared with those workers and students in this field, they might come to like to serve them who are also consumers and users or clients for Wall Street.
Otherwise, you have to use computer software of which hidden structure and functions you never know, while you have to use computer hardware of which hidden structure and functions you never know, in the worst case.
Yes, the last place a computer virus can penetrate and work on might be the semiconductor material in the nano scale…
So, trust in Japan.
Indeed, even in a Sony's plant around Tokyo, skilled workers are allowed to enjoy a status like the Noble Prize winner wearing a factory uniform Mr. Koichi Tanaka in Kyoto as I mentioned yesterday.
(Oh, dear, they will take it as a joke, since somebody completely looks like a fool even to himself so successfully. Have you checked the World/Japan No.1s collection page?
http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/bee_gees/I_Started_A_Joke.mid
Source: http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/bee_gees/bee_gees.html)
Mar 2:3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
Mar 2:4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
Mar 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.