English: Federico Faggin, designer the world's first microprocessor in 1971, says the microprocessor allowed the creation of thousands of different types of products, all powered by what he calls “a speck of intelligence.” And these devices are now connecting with one another and connecting people through the Internet. “I think [the] Internet represents the collection of all the power of this engine, and it’s the defining capacity of microprocessors,” said Faggin. “It connects people at a planetary scale. It connects things and provides flows of information, which are useful for communication, control and computation.”