The Additive Age

摘要

Materials Science and Engineering has provided the chapter title titles in the book of human history: The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Although all fields of science and engineering are important, it is the advancements in materials science that have marked critical eras of human advancement. When I was studying Materials Science and Engineering as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, I wondered whether, hundreds or thousands of years from now, historians would say we are currently in the Silicon Age due to the transformational emergence of the silicon transistor chip. But in recent years, I've concluded the history books will label this the "Additive Age".