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To: Wally Mastroly who wrote (9213)	10/11/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15132

Moore's law has been a good debate for over a decade. The technology will have to change eventually, but the idea of doubling in processing power should roughly follow the curve. I've attended some amazing seminars at HP Labs that discussed the technology being looked at for computers 20-50 yrs from now. A biological, parallel processing "machine" using DNA was just one. Idea is do millions of operations in parallel rather than in serial as present machines mostly do. sort of reminds me to corollary to making things "idiot proof" ....someone always finds a smarter idiot! I have a quote somewhere from "Popular Science", the IN journal of the day, that says something like "the limit of the size of a computer will be about the size of a car" 3000 lbs due to heat/cooling requirements... of course Tubes have been replaced by CMOS transistor in the last 50 yrs... Kirk out