For the last fifty years, we have lived in the world of Moore's Law - with truly astounding results.
However, within the next decade we will be approaching fundamental physical limits of the transistor (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_nanometer).
What do you think comes next? Will hardware plateau while software catches up? How will this affect the computing future we've been promised (atom-level simulations of complex systems, the singularity, etc.)?
However, within the next decade we will be approaching fundamental physical limits of the transistor (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_nanometer).
What do you think comes next? Will hardware plateau while software catches up? How will this affect the computing future we've been promised (atom-level simulations of complex systems, the singularity, etc.)?