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World Service,22 Dec 1997,28 mins

The shrinking transistor

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The shrinking of the transistor, or Moore's Law. Why the transistor has gone on getting smaller and smaller, according to Moore's Law computers will double their power and shrink their size, every few years. The reason why is found in nature, and in our brains, which science has yet to be able to emulate.

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