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...year-old once a week for two years and improve his reading skills. I also know that I'm highly unreliable, so I got two co-workers to sign up with me. Bravely opting for the "condensed, intensive" training seminar, we withstood three hours and eight chocolate chip cookies to listen to two of the sweetest women I've ever wanted to kill say the phrase "read with the child" 136 different ways. It seemed that the basis of the program was to read Time Inc. publications with our tutee. This was brilliant not only because it gets kids hooked...
...three years before he co-founded Intel with Bob Noyce--Gordon Moore published an article in Electronics magazine that turned out to be uncannily prophetic. Moore wrote that the number of circuits on a silicon chip would keep doubling every year. He later revised this to every 18 to 24 months, a forecast that has held up remarkably well over several decades and countless product cycles. How will it hold up in the future? TIME's Chris Taylor put the question to the man behind Moore...
...that chipmakers double every 18 months or so the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a silicon wafer the size of a fingernail. They do this by etching microscopic grooves onto crystalline silicon with beams of ultraviolet radiation. A typical wire in a Pentium chip is now 1/500 the width of a human hair; the insulating layer is only 25 atoms thick...
That does not, however, mean that we will one day, as a species, submit to the indignity of the chip--if only because the chip is likely to shortly be as quaint an object as the vacuum tube or the slide rule...
From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass. Inserting a silicon chip into the human brain involves a certain irreducible inelegance of scale. It's scarcely more elegant, relatively, than inserting a steam engine into the same tissue. It may be technically possible, but why should we even want to attempt such a thing...