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Introduction
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... To project future developments, he extrapolates from past decreases in the feature size of FETs, increases in the die or chip size, and improvements in the "cleverness" of circuit design. He also presents some thought-provoking analogies between the development of iron technology during the industrial revolution for our structural needs and the ongoing development of silicon technology for our electronic needs.
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... Computer networks provide means for autonomous, geographically distributed computer systems, while tightly coupled multiprocessor systems provide for enormous, affordable, processing power. He also discusses what has been perhaps the great bottleneck of the field, which is the development of the software not its running, not its structure, but how to bring it into existence.
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