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The future is almost never what you expect it to be. Case in point: Over 40 years ago, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip would double every two years. His comment, dubbed "Moore's Law" by computer scientists, has been used countless times over the past several decades to assure consumers that their electronics will always get faster and better at a rapid clip. Moore's Law has also been a pet theory among futurists and science fiction writers who believe that electronics will soon grow in complexity at rate so fast it could upend civilization. More »
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In the following essay, Jennifer Ouellette explores what happens when otherwise normal science documentaries attempt to give their topics dramatic flourish...and fail hard. More »
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Researchers at IBM are farming nanowires, growing wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair like microscopic silicon bonsai trees. This image shows the wires sprouting silicon. More »
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Moore's Law, which predicts a doubling of transistor density every 18 months, won't give us superhuman intelligence in a reasonable timeframe by itself, says author Vernor Vinge in this new video from the Ideas Project. More »
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