No one can deny that computers have enabled humans to do amazing things, like watch movies of the insides of our bodies, golf on the moon, and shrink the planet with a world-wide communication Net. And computers do keep getting faster and roomier. For about twenty years now, “Moore’s law” has held true, as every two or three years we’ve seen a tenfold improvement in computer capacity and speed. But factual reports of quantitative progress can easily slip into science fiction speculation, as has happened with the next three myths.
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