Ref: M. Gomez-Lopez and J. Fraser Stoddart, in nanostructuredMaterials and Nanotechnology, Hari Sigh Nalwa (Ed). Academic Press, New York, 2002.
Gordon E. Moore observed that at our rate of technological development and advances in the semiconductor industry, the number of transistors on integrated circuits (a rough measure of computer processing power) doubles every 18 months. We should expect thatin 10 years computers will be about 100 times more powerful than they are today.