The development of LCD technology from simple laboratory samples
to the more than 40-billion dollar industry that exists today, is a story that
goes well beyond the technical aspects of the structures and mechanisms
of operation. It also involves the ideas, visions, struggles and ambitions of
the scientists and engineers who made it possible. This account then is a
personal, in-depth look at the evolution of an important high-technology
industry and the people who created it, from the eyes of one who watched
it grow from inception to ubiquity for more than a third of a century.