Mead sees two important states of matter: coherent and incoherent. Before lasers there wasn't a lot of coherent to be so easily observed.
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> […] Mead said, with the goal of explaining in an intuitive way how all matter in the universe relates to and affects all other matter, and how to explore those interrelationships in a way that isn't "buried in enormous piles of obscure mathematics."
He sees semiconductor tunneling as an intelligible wave phenomenon, resembling on the microcosmic level the movement of radio waves through walls. interview , archive
See Quantum Physics reconsidered by Mead.
See also Pilot Waves in macroscopic systems.