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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. smiths breathless articles remind me of the 50s and 60s Popular Science stories that promised a flying car in every garage by 1970. Color me highly skeptical.


2 posted on 07/08/2015 3:47:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. smiths breathless articles remind me of the 50s and 60s Popular Science stories that promised a flying car in every garage by 1970. Color me highly skeptical.
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The difference between now and 1950’s and 60’s is that then the technology was changing but not accelerating whereas today the rate of technological change is accelerating.

What’s driving that is that computers continue to get smaller faster better—that is Moore’s law is still in effect.

Now unless the jump to quantum computers can be made in 10 years—Moore’s law will come to end—but again that’s 10 years from now.


3 posted on 07/08/2015 7:39:48 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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