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was led to the ee group via a question on cs.se on gates on a chip. & saw an interesting high voted question on moores law. so throwing caution to the wind asked something that have been wondering about for a few yrs:
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Long ago Moore's law became not just about transistor count (it's original target) but about processing capability. In this respect Moore's law broke several years ago but people seem not to have noticed. It is getting increasingly easier to make N things than to make something N times as fast. They are pushing up against some major constraints of physics and while it is possible to make systems somewhat faster the cost is prohibitive compared to just making more cores. Consider,when did you first see a 3 GHz processor? Now, where are the 6 and 2 and 24 GhZ processors? And the flying cars :-) — Russell McMahon Jul 11 '12 at 13:55
huh... maybe asking about the slowing of moores law is like the EE equivalent of asking about peak oil?
that ref to flying cars reminds me of one of my fave books/authors (even with some TCS angle in some chapters!)
robots gone wild in wilson's robopocalypse USA today 5/2011. notes that spielberg has optioned the book for upcoming movie... (!!!)
Robopocalypse is a New York Times best selling science fiction book by Daniel H. Wilson published on June 8, 2011. The author has a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and many of the robots in the novel were inspired by real-world robotics research. Sources like Robert Crais and Booklist have compared the book to the works of Michael Crichton and Robert Heinlein.
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In the future, small groups of survivors find ways to survive without modern technology in an increasingly robot-reliant society after a computer scientist accidentally unleashes a supremely intelligent sent...
wikipedia: However, on January 9, 2013, DreamWorks revealed that Spielberg decided to postpone Robopocalypse indefinitely, citing the reason, through the director's spokesman Marvin Levy, as "too important and the script is not ready, and it's too expensive to produce. It's back to the drawing board to see what is possible." [12]
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