Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku on the Collapse of Moore’s Law

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Moore’s Law has been around since 1965 when Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore described it in a paper. Since that day, the law has been in full effect, and the number of transistors placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has roughly doubled every two years. It’s also a commonly held belief that chip performance doubles every 18 months. But Moore’s Law won’t be true forever, and in the video below theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how it will collapse. And Kaku argues that the collapse isn’t going to happen in some distant future but within the next decade. The problem is one of finding a replacement for silicon coupled with the exponential nature of Moore’s Law. Quite simply, computing power cannot go on doubling every two years indefinitely. The other issue is we are about to reach the limits of [...]

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Michio Kaku On The Singularity

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Want to see what Michio Kaku thinks about the technological singularity? Check out this video: In the second video Dr. Kaku discusses not only the singularity but also other relevant issues such as Moore’s Law, shape-shifting technology such as claytronics (programmable smart matter at the nano-scale level), Asimov’s Laws of Robotics and Kardashev‘s type 1, type 2 and type 3 civilization. Michio argues that we are currently a type 0 civilization, which is the most dangerous stage because arguably, one way or another, most civilizations commit planetary suicide and never actually survive to reach type 1. Other similar articles: Michio Kaku: An Escape To Parallel Universe

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Michio Kaku: An Escape to a Parallel Universe

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This is a very interesting video by BigThink.com. Professor of theoretical physics Michio Kaku speculates that our universe may end in a “big freeze.” What is unique about Prof. Kaku’s take on the Big End, however, is his belief that the end of the universe need not be the end of intelligence because we might be able to slip into a parallel universe “in the same way that Alice entered the looking glass to enter Wonderland.”   So, was Lewis Carroll a theoretical physicist? Or, is Michio Kaku a fantasy writer? Well, whatever the case — I like them both! And how about you?! Related articles by Zemanta Michio Kaku and the Theory of Everything (beliefnet.com) Physicist Michio Kaku: SETI Contact with ET Will Be Withheld….at Least for Awhile (grantlawrence.blogspot.com) Michio Kaku: A Second Big Bang in Geneva? (online.wsj.com)

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