Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law

nightcats writes "An excerpt from Michio Kaku's new book appears at salon.com, in which he sees a dark economic future within the next 20 years as Moore's law is brought to an end when single-atom transistors give way to quantum states. Kaku predicts: 'Since chips are placed in a wide variety of products, this could have disastrous effects on the entire economy. As entire industries grind to a halt, millions could lose their jobs, and the economy could be thrown into turmoil.'" Exactly the way the collapse of the vacuum tube industry killed the economy, I hope.

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Re:On vacuum tubes.

[westlake]

Their last 3 "New" versions have mostly been about Microsoft's bottom line, and been less about true innovation. (EG--look how hard they are trying to kill windows XP.)

Amusing.

The geek body-slams XP for ten years.

But is first and loudest to be heard wailing at its EOL gravesite mourning.

What you would see instead, is a service-industry created, instead of a product-industry.... Oh wait, we already are!

Last I heard from the geek, service was the way to find profit in FOSS.