How far can we push computing?
Nowadays big advances are made by scaling up—think more chips packed into ever-bigger data centers. But as we near the ceiling of what we can build, there’s still plenty of room below, at the fundamental physical limits of computing.
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Nowadays big advances are made by scaling up—think more chips packed into ever-bigger data centers. But as we near the ceiling of what we can build, there’s still plenty of room below, at the fundamental physical limits of computing.
Richard Feynman speaks at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1965.CERN
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