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In the 1950s, the first space rocket and the MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) transistor were constructed and this was when we see things really speeding up.
Much of the communication development relied on silicon integrated transistors which began to be produced in 1959 after which their rate of development was expressed in 1965 by Moore’s law. Gordon Moore predicted that the number of components per integrated circuit would double every two years and to some extent this seems to have occurred at first with 1,500 transistors in 1970, 3,000 in 1972, 50,000 in 1980, 12 million in 2000 and about 40,000 million in 2020. This development in transistors was a main reason that computers became much smaller and faster. (It should be noted, however, that Moore’s law did not apply to many other areas such as, for example, food production.) Then in the early 21st century came cell telephones that were fast and then faster. Finally, “telephones” were actually minicomputers, with advanced cameras and many other utilities incorporated. Both telephones and computers could connect through the air to worldwide networks with very vast quantities of information and misinformation. |
