Osseo, Minnesota Technology Director Tim Wilson spoke at TIES to a packed house on emerging technologies. He began by reminding us about exponential growth. It grows slowly at first, but then takes off. Sometimes we don't understand what's happening until it's too late! In 1965 Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, said that "the number of circuits on a computer chip will double every two years." In 10 years, we've gone from the pentium chip to the Atom chip, which is the size of a grain of rice! In 1998 there were 8 million transistors on a chip. Now there are 820 million! If we are teaching math standards, understanding Exponential growth should be one of them! So what do the next 10 years hold? If Moore's law holds true, the chips of 2018 will have 25,600 million transistors!!! If this is true, all of the ways that technology has changed in the last 10 years will be infinitesmal compared to what's happening. The computing power of the iMac of 1998 ...
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