This was the 50th anniversary of the conference. And therefore there was a lot of talk about Moore’s Law.
Roughly speaking, every 10 years computers get about 100 times faster. Which means that after 50 years, computers have gotten about 100 trillion times faster.
Turner Whitted made the observation in a session this week that we shouldn’t be focusing on the quantitative effect of Moore’s Law. Instead, we should be focusing on the qualitative effect.
Just morning I had an experience that reaffirms this. More tomorrow.