Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku* rekindled a perennial discussion this week by saying Moore's Law, the pacesetter of technological advancement over the last half-century, will hold true for only about 10 more years. As Kaku describes, we're reaching the physical limits of silicon technology, and at a certain point computing power won't improve at the rate we've come to expect.
This may sound familiar. Every few years, it seems, technology reaches the limits of whatâ??s physically possible, and Mooreâ??s Law is given a decade to get its affairs in order.
