First--Thanks to all who helped clear up my confusion.
The readings concerned Moore's law, computer hardware, and the Computer History Museum. I had heard Moore's law stated and misstated frequently. I was surprised to discover that the law is suppose to apply to semiconductor circuits only. The computer industry has used this law to set an industry standard that has fuel growth and, in my opinion, environmental pollution.
The reading on computer hardware was fairly straight forward. It explained terminology that I had heard used but did not really know what the terms meant.
The visit to the Computer History Museum site was amazing. Besides facts such as the first computer in 1939 and the beginning of the Internet in 1972, it made me think of Moore's law and the speed of computer development.
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You raise a really good point about the environmental implications of such rapid technological growth. This seems to be an issue that a lot of the articles we've read so far seem to ignore. All of this expansion satisfies consumers' desires to buy the latest and greatest gadgets, but all of their old gadgets (including all of the plastic packaging in which these gadgets were originally purchased)are really piling up--quickly!
Dear Susanna and Amanda,
Today's science fiction appears to generate tomorrow's newest gadgets. Only a few years ago the laptop the machine that granted mobile computing. Now some computer applications are available on cell phones, PDA's and iPods. The advent of chat is rapidly giving way to teleconferences now that newer laptops have built in web-cameras. Nano-technology will allow developers to scale down the size well beyond the one or two pound units currently on the market. Analog TV has given way to total digital transmissions, but the future may see digital fall to some new medium.
Suzanna,
Thank you so much for your help to understand how assignments are organized.
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