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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font><i><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>By Ray Kurzweil<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sunday, April 13, 2008</span></font><font
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<p style='background:white'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>M IT was so advanced in 1965 (the year I entered as a
freshman) that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost
$11 million (in today's dollars) and was shared by all students and faculty.
Four decades later, the computer in your cellphone is a million times smaller,
a million times less expensive and a thousand times more powerful. That's a
billion-fold increase in the amount of computation you can buy per dollar. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='background:white'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yet as powerful as information technology is today, we
will make another billion-fold increase in capability (for the same cost) over
the next 25 years. That's because information technology builds on itself -- we
are continually using the latest tools to create the next so they grow in
capability at an exponential rate. This doesn't just mean snazzier cellphones.
It means that change will rock every aspect of our world. The exponential
growth in computing speed will unlock a solution to global warming, unmask the
secret to longer life and solve myriad other worldly conundrums. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103326.html"
title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103326.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103326.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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