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Thursday, May 23, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm02/erm023w.asp Moore's Law and the Conundrum of Human Learning In 1965 Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, theorized that the computing power of a semiconductor chip would double every year—a doubling rate that indeed held true until the late 1970s, when it slowed to every eighteen months. This theorem, known as Moore’s law, continues today. As a result, our technology prowess is developing computational devices that will produce artificially intelligent devices in twenty-five years, according to some experts (e.g., Ray Kurzweil, Bill Joy, and Larry Smarr). Even today, colleges and universities are equipping their students with computers that challenge both our imagination and our ideas on learning. This contrast—between the human capacity for learning and the radically expanding growth of compu-tational power—provides a focused lens through which we can view our increasing sense of connectedness and the implications for higher education. In the following articles, four contributing authors look through this lens, answering six related questions to report on what they see....
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