1/27/2005
   slide 20
Moore’s “Law” – What is it?
•Actually a prediction that the number of transistors doubles every 18 months
•Or… price/performance improves x 2 every 18 months)
•Wrist watches more powerful than computers in 1960s
•In 1970 your laptop a national security risk
•Increased speed makes computer graphics possible
Transistor density doubling every 18 months. In Graphics chips doubling in power every 6 months!
You now wear on your wrist a computer more powerful than any the government had in the 1960s. In 1970s your laptop would have been a national security risk because it would be a supercomputer that could break codes. Difficult to conceive of the rate of change. Most like—an epidemic (only more positive I hope)

All about scale .
10x movie
Nothing else is exponential for so long: hard to comprehend. By graph, by analogy.
Makes brute computation lighting fast. Changing many aspects of our world, but huge impact for the visual, which is very computationally expensive. (whole abstract-for-first-time argument—see previous writings).

Also can compute about things on a much smaller (and larger) scale than before—open new arena for computation (bio, material science, etc.), astronomy… computers in the sky and under out skin.

http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm
ftp://download.intel.com/research/silicon/Gordon_Moore_ISSCC_021003.pdf great presentation with excellent visuals