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| ''''Highly recommended-when the revolution comes don''''t say no one warned you'''' Scotland on Sunday''''. |
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ISBN : 9780099452171
Author ID : 268
Author : George Johnson
Binding : Paperback
Format : B Format
Imprint : Vintage
Publication Date: 03/06/2004
Extent : 224
Dimensions : 130 x 197 mm.
Description : The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail. Several years from now, if this incredible shrinking continues, a single chip will hold a billion switches, then a trillion. The logical culmination is a computer in which the switches are so tiny that each consists of an individual atom. At that point something miraculous happens: Quantum mechanics kick in. Anyone who follows the science news or watches ''''Star Trek'''' has at least a notion of what that means: particles can be in two or more places at once. Atoms obey a peculiar logic of their own - and if it can be harnessed society will be transformed. Problems that would now take forever would be solved almost instantly. Quantum computing promises nothing less than a shortcut through time.
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