The life of the silicon chip industry may last 10 or more years longer, thanks to a new manufacturing process using carbon nanotubes developed by NASA scientists.
The first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain are to be built by IBM, under a contract announced by the US Government.
The current economic boom is likely due to increases in computing speed and decreases in price. Charles Mann argues that there are some good reasons to think that this trend may be over as technology may soon be no longer able to produce the dramatic increases in computing power predicted by Moore's Law.