Pervasiveness of microchips—and, by extension, pervasiveness of electronic devices—was then part of the design and imagining of chips, and this was not just so at Fairchild and Intel. In 1964, Patrick Haggerty, head of Texas Instruments at the time, forecast that electronics would become completely common “if the vexing technical problems related to reliability and containment of fabrication costs are overcome.” 33By successfully overcoming technical constraints, it would be possible to achieve a positive feedback loop where electronics contributed to their own proliferation. This is what Haggerty referred to as “the ultimate per-vasive character of electronics,” where electronics would become so ordi-nary that there would be no aspect of society that was not in some way informed by electronic processing. 34Indeed, as this study notes, micro-chips of all types are now embedded in everything from computers to consumer electronics to control systems.