By GENE A. BUDIG and ALAN HEAPS, Post & Courier
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore predicted that computer processing power would double every two years. Almost fifty years later, his prediction, known as Moore’s Law, has proven to be incredibly accurate. Here are two examples of the startling rate of change. Today’s iPad is as fast as the Cray supercomputer of 25 years ago. In another 25 years, one expert predicts that our hand-held devices will “be able to store the entire human knowledge base.” It’s obvious to everyone that these advances have reshaped many parts of our world. But different sectors have moved at different speeds. Some, like communications and media, are virtually unrecognizable when compared to their recent pasts. But other sectors have been much slower to take advantage of these changes. A few have almost completely ignored the new technologies.
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