A closer look
For years we treated computers like sprinters—just keep running faster, doubling speed every few laps. That was Moore’s Law. But the race track is wearing thin, and raw speed is slowing down. So innovators are trying new shapes of progress: stacking chips like skyscrapers instead of spreading them flat, arranging circuits that mimic the pathways of neurons, or harnessing bizarre quantum states where particles multitask in parallel universes. The astonishing possibility is that our future devices may not be swift calculators but tiny artificial minds, thinking more like us than we ever imagined.
