Moore on Gore (from U.S. News & World Report)

From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 12:10:34 MDT


I thought Gordon Moore's comment was amusing.

>I never said 18 months. I said one year, and then two years. One of my
>Intel colleagues changed it from the complexity of the chips to the
>performance of computers and decided that not only did you get a benefit
>from the doubling every two years but we were able to increase the clock
>frequency, too, so computer performance was actually doubling every 18
>months. I guess that's a corollary of Moore's Law.
>
>Moore's Law has been the name given to everything that changes
>exponentially in the industry. I saw, if Gore invented the Internet, I
>invented the exponential.

Full transcript of the May 18, 2000 interview is at:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/transcripts/moore.htm

Max

Max More, Ph.D.
President, Extropy Institute. www.extropy.org
CEO, MoreLogic Solutions. www.maxmore.com
max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org



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