Feynman's vision

Look at the vision this man had in 1960 !!

I am talking about Richard Feynman and I reproduce his quote here.

" As soon as I mention this, people tell me about miniaturization and how far it has progressed today. They tell me about electric motors that are the size of ht nail on your small finger. And there is a device in the market they tell me by which you can write the lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. But that's nothing. thats the most primitive, halting step in the direction I intend to discuss. It is staggeringly small world that is below. In the year 2000, when they look back at this age, they will wonder why it was not untill 1960s that anybody began seriously to move in this direction. "

In 2000, the MOSFET size was 100 nm, its predicted 50 nm pretty soon.

I am impressed with the vision he had then !

All elctronics industries target on reducing the size of the transistors and hence all this nano technology. The laptops are doubled in their conputational power each year. Moors law holds good till now since many years...

More to come up on nano tech soon :)