50 years ago Gordon Moore (cofounder of Intel) predicted that for the next 10 years, the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. He later adjusted his prediction to a doubling of every 2 years. If Gordon gives you a stock tip, you should probably take it, cause his incredible prediction was right on, and continued to be so for the next 40 years. Doubling every year is a powerful force. If you doubled the number of pennies you give me for 50 years, I'd have 1,125,899,906,842,623 pennies. I suspect you would have to pay me in large bills cause there would be no pennies left in circulation.
Unfortunately about 10 years ago, the speed of chips stopped increasing at the same rate. What does this mean? Even on your smart phone instead of a single computer, you have 4. Each one not really faster than the ones of prior years. We must distribute the tasks among computers. With great challenges comes great opportunity.
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