The following NYT article is interesting ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31compute.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general People of course have been predicting the end of the Moore's Law since almost as long as Moore has predicted it. But it has been happily surviving all those dire predictions. Today, science is faced with some seemingly fundamental scientific limits as it seeks to miniaturize chips and switching and data storage devices. But as the article points out, perhaps solutions will yet be found using some quantum principle ... some offshoot of nanotechnology perhaps ... one is happy to hear exotic phrases such as memristers and what not ... What a journey we have traversed in such a short span of time — from vacuum tubes to quantum computing. I think I indeed had vacuum tubes in the physics lab of my college during the days of my youth. Well, that might give the impression that I must surely be a doddering old 80-year-old gentleman looking 60 years back in ti...
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