From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 10:39:00 MST
Nanowave noted:
<<http://www.redherring.com/insider/2003/02/moore021003.html >>
Good article but forget about forgeting. Moores Law will be held as a
standard, and will be remembered as the bright light of the glory days of
computing. I will err on the side of pessimism, in this case, because there
may be a practical limit, in electronics, for our epoch. Other systems may
come along, providing optical laser computing, or bio-source computing. But
they won't imitate silicon's amazing growth during the 20th and early 21st
centuries.
Like I said, I will err on the side of pessimism today. Maybe the new epoch
will bring rapid advances in genetic technology, materials science, and
perhaps even interplanetary travel. So it may be, away from the realm of
Gates, and back to the establishment of Heinlein, made flesh?
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