Internet Insight: Moore’s Law & Order
April 24, 2002 | Source: eWeek
Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns forsees faster growth in computational power over the next several decades than Moore’s Law predicts. Kurzweil said we can “expect the process to accelerate at a double exponential rate.””The next paradigm, the sixth, will be three-dimensional molecular computing,” Kurzweil said. “In the past year, there have been major strides, for example, in creating three-dimensional carbon nanotube-based electronic circuits.”
Lucent Technologies and IBM have already succeeded in fabricating molecular-scale computing elements.