Michio Kaku: Tweaking Moore's Law and the Computers of the Post-Silicon Era

This video was a very interesting piece, where Dr. Michio Kaku explains that Moore's Law could end within the next ten years, an idea that has alreagy begun to decline. Computer power cannot maintain it's rapid potential buys using standard silicon technology.

The end of silicon means such proposals as protein computers, DNA computers, optical computers, etc. Microsoft uses the idea of paralell processing, this idea of instead of using one chip, spread it out horizontally. Dr. Kaku explained that the post-silicon era could bring molecular computers, potentially even quantum computers.

The problem with molecular computers is mass production and wiring, how do you wire molecules so small? Quantum computers also have issues, the main one being incoherence. These computers could become contaminated by disturbances from the outside world.

In next ten years, Dr. Kaku believes Moore's Law will be tweaked with chip-like computers in 3d. Beyond that will be molecular computers and by late 21st Century possibly even quantu computers. I thought this video was an interesting perspective on Moore's Law after having a brief discussion on this concept in the first week of class.