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Will computers ever stop getting better?
According to Moore’s Law, and the limits of quantum mechanics, some estimate that we will reach top processing power in roughly 70 years. Critics of that claim, however, say that Moore’s Law will begin to break down in as little as 15 years, particularly because transistors are already microscopically small.
Why computer is more efficient than human being?
Computers enjoy other advantages over people. They have better memories, so they can be fed a large amount of information, and can tap into all of it almost instantaneously. Computers don’t require sleep the way humans do, so they can calculate, analyze and perform tasks tirelessly and round the clock.
What are some of the limitations of computer technology?
This limitation is rather fundamental, because the fastest possible speed for information transmission is of course the speed of light, and the speed of an electron is already a substantial fraction of this. Where we hope for future improvements is not so much in the speed of computer devices as in the speed of computation.
How can computer components be made faster?
So to make computers faster, their components must become smaller. At current rates of miniaturization, the behavior of computer components will hit the atomic scale in a few decades.
Did Moore predict the end of exponential growth?
In 2010, Moore himself predicted that the laws of physics would call a halt to the exponential increases.
Is quantum computing an epochal development in computing?
And of course there is also a good deal of frenzied research into quantum computing, which could, in principle, be an epochal development. But computing involves a combination of hardware and software and one of the predictable consequences of Moore’s law is that it made programmers lazier.