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ICT and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2022
You wouldn’t call it a classic joke. It’s more of a quip, to be honest; something you might hear at a computer-science convention. It is said that the number of people predicting the end of Moore’s law doubles every two years. Lol.
For the uninitiated, Moore’s law refers to Gordon Moore’s prediction, in 1965, that the number of transistors on a computer microchip would double every two years while the cost of computers would be halved. It was a brave prediction to make when microprocessors and home computers were still just a distant dream. But despite the countless experts predicting the demise of Moore’s law, as the quip insinuates, it has remained true for almost five decades, as Figure 31.1 demonstrates.
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