The Law of More (was: Re: trends in brain imaging)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 17:32:41 MST


At 03:31 PM 21/01/01 +0930, Emlyn wrote:

>Moore's law is usually modified to be somewhere between doubling every 2 or
>1.5 years. That's maybe 6 or 7 doublings in a decade at best, which is a
>factor of about 100, or 10^2.

Hans Moravec told me a year ago that the current doubling rate for Moore's
`Law' is under 12 months. Unless it slows again, that's c. 2^10 (=10^3) in
the next decade.

(And he might be wrong, of course.)

Damien Broderick



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