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Originally Posted by djmcmath View Post
For quite a while now, we've been experiencing exponential growth in computing technology. Moore's Law is literally an observed exponential growth curve for the last few decades. Anytime else in history, we'd call this kind of growth "a revolution." You know, like "the industrial revolution," for example. Eventually, this incredible pace of growth has to return to something like a linear progression.

Am I wrong?
Yes. You are wrong.

The issue is that we are rapidly reaching the point where electrical technology cannot be made smaller, since we're down to pathways the size of atoms. We will need a revolutionary technology, probably a laser based computer.
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