Chip Industry Sets a Plan for Life After Silicon
Chip Industry Sets a Plan for Life After Silicon
The transition to new nanotechnology techniques could occur around 2015, when chip makers will have exhausted their ability to shrink the wires and switches that make up the modern processors and memory storage devices at the heart of the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries.
Maybe Ray Kurzweil isn’t as loopy as some people say he is…the NYT has seen some industry reports that suggest we could have nanotech computing within a decade. It’s all part of that luscious exponential curve that arcs us ever faster towards the singularity, when we will transcend the limitations of our ‘meat’ existance. Possibly. Hey, a guy can dream, right? I’m first in the queue for upload, personally…
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