HowStuffWorks "Transistors on the Nanoscale" - 1 views
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By the 1960s, computer scientist (and Intel co-founder) Gordon Moore made an interesting observation. He noticed that every 12 months, engineers were able to double the number of transistors on a square inch piece of silicon. Like clockwork, engineers were finding ways to reduce the size of transistors
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Melinda Mah on 12 Sep 14Every year, there are twice as many transistors: twice as much computing power. However, this can't continue forever.
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These days, the number of transistors doubles every 24 months.
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It seems like the increasing power of computers is slowing. This could mean that we will get into cheaper ways of making the same level of technology, contributing to the leveling out of advantages between education in developed countries and other countries. This could also affect the future of being able to have clear and realistic communication in the future. Today's Canadian systems suffer from inadequate bandwidth and infrastructure, and there are few signs that it will be improved dramatically enough to have clear visual communication. It may be that future communication will emphasize speaking and typing without the aid of body language.
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some physicists and engineers think we might be bumping up against some fundamental physical limits when it comes to transistor size.
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I was inspired by Megan Rowe's post to look up information about transistors. Gratton posit that computing power will continue to increase as it ha now, but I had heard that we were reaching a limitation with transistors, so I looked up more information about this possibility. The exponential increase in computing power has already begun to slow down. Link to annotated version: https://diigo.com/03w8c7