Moore's Law Found to Apply to Evolution of Technologies Beyond Transistors

Predicting the future of technology often seems a fool’s game. In 1946 for example, Thomas J. Watson, founder of International Business Machines -- now known simply as IBM -- is said to have made the prediction that the world would need just five computers. But US researchers now say that technological progress really is predictable -- and back up the claim with evidence regarding 62 different technologies. [More]

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