Moore's Law states that every few years the number of transistors able to be fit on the same amount of space doubles. Moore's Law is one of the main reasons for technological trend up until now. Unfortunately, this trend will most likely cease by the year 2015 and advancements will be extremely slow and costly.
Never fear, there is hope.
Through a field called Molecular-Scale Electronics, scientists are attempting to develop chips the size of, well, molecules! Each individual transistor on the cheap is one molecule large but that's not all. The amount of heat outputted by normal chips is around 100 watts. The amount of heat from molecular transistors is about 50 picowatts, which is much much smaller (about 50 millions of a millionth of a watt).
Believe it or not, our beloved United States isn't pure when it comes to banning things.
Mortal Kombat and Night Trap were nearly banned upon their release. Mike Tyson's Punchout and Michael Jackson's Moonwalk were removed from shelves when certain incidences occurred.
The movie "A clockwork orange" was actually banned for a short period of time when it came to the US.
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Moore's Law states that every few years the number of transistors able to be fit on the same amount of space doubles. Moore's Law is one of the main reasons for technological trend up until now. Unfortunately, this trend will most likely cease by the year 2015 and advancements will be extremely slow and costly. Never fear, there is hope. Through a field called Molecular-Scale Electronics, scientists are attempting to develop chips the size of, well, molecules! Each individual transistor on the cheap is one molecule large but that's not all. The amount of heat outputted by normal chips is around 100 watts. The amount of heat from molecular transistors is about 50 picowatts, which is much much smaller (about 50 millions of a millionth of a watt).
Believe it or not, our beloved United States isn't pure when it comes to banning things. Mortal Kombat and Night Trap were nearly banned upon their release. Mike Tyson's Punchout and Michael Jackson's Moonwalk were removed from shelves when certain incidences occurred. The movie "A clockwork orange" was actually banned for a short period of time when it came to the US.