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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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  1. Re:On vacuum tubes. by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just a guy that would love to be able to buy and store more sensitive foods.

    Well, I dunno... just don't be mean, and compliment them once in a while.