"From Napier to Lucas", Michael R. Williams, Annals of the History of Computing, (5)3, 1983, 279--96.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

.... of arrogance and foolishness to assume that we are now using the ultimate technology for computation, namely silicon based integrated circuits, just as it would have been foolish (at least in retrospect) to assume in the 16th century that Napier s Bones were the ultimate computing technology [Williams 83] Indeed the end of the exponential increase in computation speed for uni processors is in sight, forcing somewhat the large amount of research into parallel approaches to more computation for the dollar, and per second. But there are other more radical possibilities for changes in computation ....

"From Napier to Lucas", Michael R. Williams, Annals of the History of Computing, (5)3, 1983, 279--96.

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