Did you ever imagine that you can talk face to face to someone who is thousands of kilometers away from you!
When someone told just 25 years back that your mobile can do most of the work and replace at least a dozen devices like mp3 player to clock to calculator you would have laughed! Now it’s common knowledge!
That according to Robert Langdon in secret of secrets is Moore’s law!
Moore’s Law is the observation, made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years, leading to increased power and reduced cost in electronics. Initially a forecast for the next decade in a 1965 article, it was revised to a two-year doubling period in 1975 and has since become a guiding principle and benchmark for the semiconductor industry’s technological innovation.
1975: Moore revised this forecast to a doubling period of every two years.
The consistent pursuit of this trend by companies like Intel turned the prediction into a target that drives research and development in the industry!
All though it was for transistors; now it applies to most all inventions! Technology moves at such astronomical pace that it’s mind boggling!
The science fiction of today is the normal of tomorrow!
Then again some technology and studies unfortunately involves sacrifices. One such legendary story is of poor Laika…
Laika was the stray Moscow mongrel who became the first animal to orbit the Earth when she was launched into space aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on November 3, 1957.
She died from stress and overheating a few hours into the flight, though the exact details of her death were not revealed to the public until 2002. Her mission provided crucial data for human spaceflight, and she is widely remembered as a pioneer of space exploration.
With all the advances do spare a thought for such great sacrifices…
A quick sketch on a very busy day…
Shubh ratri…
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