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DARPA Looks Beyond Moore's Law
ddtstudio writes "DARPA (the folks who brought you the Internet) is, according to eWeek, looking more than ten years down the road when, they say, chip makers are going to have to have totally new chip fabrication technologies. Quantum gates? Indium Phosphide? Let's keep in mind that Moore's Law was more an observation than a predictive law of nature, despite how people treat it that way."
First they want to get around privacy laws, now they want to break Moore's law...these guys have no bounds!
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Moore's law, bah! Thinking about it, DARPA should get Steve Jobs on board to study his Reality Distortion Field. Think of the military aspects of.......oh, wait. We already have that.
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Therefore i propose: "Moores Law 2: Anyone mentioning his name in a discussion aboout semiconductors, CPU's or transitsors have lost the discussion."
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This idea of speeding up processing speed is barking up the wrong tree and ultimately doomed to failure. We need to be focusing our attention on biochemistry and molecular biology. We already have drugs that slow your reaction time, thus making things appear to happen more quickly.
See, if we get everybody to take xanax or zoloft, there's no limit to how fast computers will appear to be working.
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For a minute there I misread and thought your subject line was "Stacked chicks"! Then I realized you were just talking about some computer stuff. Dang!
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Every 18 months, someone will develop a new law to compute the rate at which the estimate of the rate at which the number of transistors on semiconductor chips will double will halve.
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It's called the Bush Method. It isn't as fast or elegant as a genuine Reality Distortion Field, but it gets the job done about as well most of the time and the great thing is, it's cheaper and anyone can do it.
The Bush Method is so simple, it's amazing no one thought of it before 2000. All you have to do is take the thing about reality you want to distort, and state that it has changed, whether or not it hasn't. The amazing thing is, if you say it enough times publicly, it actually becomes true.
The Bush Method has already revolutionized both politics and business (See: Darl McBride, career of) and i'm sure DARPA will pick up on the military applications any day now. Expect, come 2005, to see President Bush repeatedly stating on national television that microchips are a hundred times faster than they were six months ago. Once that begins, Moore's Law is toast!
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I propose we call this new technology Overall Reduction of Exothermic Output, or OREO for short.
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The era of biological computing when I can just sneeze on my PC to double its RAM!
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