Research · engineering · Aug 28, 2026
The Tower Under Every Click
How physics becomes chips, chips become clouds, and clouds become the software people simply open and use.
sources covered
User-provided technology landscape seed note; OECD semiconductor value-chain mapping; NIST and ISO cloud definitions and reference architectures; RISC-V ISA documentation; Linux KVM, Docker, Kubernetes, CNCF, and IETF specifications; AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, Microsoft Foundry, TSMC, and ASML primary documentation; original systems writing from Dijkstra, Lampson, Saltzer, Reed, Clark, and Spolsky.