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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: axial who wrote (30749)7/27/2009 11:36:09 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (3) of 46821
 
That was a great find and an outstanding account by Kevin Kelly, Jim. Thanks.

As I read through this essay I wondered if you or anyone else also made the association that I did: Englebart's framing of "similitude" (see below) as it would now apply to the shrinking spatial diameter of securities trading venues in order to hasten transaction times:

"The smaller the model, the easier to fly. Englebart imagined how the benefits of scaling down, or as he called it "similitude," might transfer to a new invention SRI was tracking -- multiple transistors on one integrated silicon chip. Perhaps as they were made smaller, circuits too might deliver a similar kind of similitude magic: The smaller a chip, the better. Englebart presented his ideas on similitude to an audience of engineers at the 1960 Solid State Circuits Conference that included Gordon Moore, a researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor."

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