Empire on a Palm: How Semiconductors Power the World

How did something invisible come to control the modern world?Semiconductors are everywhere-inside smartphones, computers, cars, and global networks. Yet most people never see them, and few understand how they came to dominate every industry. This book follows a single, continuous flow:From a strange electrical phenomenon.to the control of electrons.to transistors and integrated circuits.to the foundation of modern computing and artificial intelligence.
This is not a technical manual. It is a structural narrative. Instead of focusing on equations or fragmented facts, this book explains why technology evolved the way it did-and how each breakthrough led to the next. From vacuum tubes to silicon chips, from individual components to global supply chains, from engineering to geopolitics. Semiconductors are no longer just parts. They are the foundation of the modern world.
If you want to understand technology-not as isolated knowledge, but as a connected system-this book provides the structure.