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What we've discovered doing this series is that while not every futurist is optimistic, most of the fun ones are. Michio Kaku, a physicist who discusses what will replace silicon chips in powering computers (try DNA), can't wait for the day when "objects will be animate and intelligent, and they'll talk to us. It'll be like a Disney movie. Our grandchildren will be incredulous that we lived way back when things didn't answer when you spoke to them...
...WILL WE PLUG CHIPS INTO OUR BRAINS? WILL ROBOTS RISE UP AND DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? WILL EVERYTHING BE DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON? WILL MOORE'S LAW BE REPEALED? WHAT WILL REPLACE THE INTERNET? WILL CYBERCRIMINALS RUN THE WORLD? WILL MICROSOFT AOL OWN EVERYTHING? IS MONOPOLY INEVITABLE? IS TECHNOLOGY MOVING TOO FAST? WILL LOW TECH REPLACE HIGH TECH? CALEB CARR: KILLING TIME...
...three years before he co-founded Intel with Bob Noyce--Gordon Moore published an article in Electronics magazine that turned out to be uncannily prophetic. Moore wrote that the number of circuits on a silicon chip would keep doubling every year. He later revised this to every 18 to 24 months, a forecast that has held up remarkably well over several decades and countless product cycles. How will it hold up in the future? TIME's Chris Taylor put the question to the man behind Moore...
TIME So is Silicon Valley going to grind to a halt? Do you fear for the future of Intel...
...economic destiny and prosperity of entire nations may rest on one question: Can silicon-based computer technology sustain Moore's law beyond 2020? Moore's law (see sidebar) is the engine pulling a trillion-dollar industry. It's the reason kids assume that it's their birthright to get a video-game system each Christmas that's almost twice as powerful as the one they got last Christmas. It's the reason you can receive (and later throw away) a musical birthday card that contains more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World...