This is the first in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles: Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating—Because It ...

Alessandro Rossi receives funding from the UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund through the Measurement Fellowship Scheme at the National Physical Laboratory. He also holds a Chancellor's ...

Moore’s Law is the most iconic statement of exponential technology advancement, doubling transistor count and hence functional performance every 24 months. Many pundits [1-3] have observed that while ...

Over the last 50 years, exponential scaling of silicon microelectronics “turned a hundred dollar chip with a few dozen transistors into a 10 dollar chip with a few billion transistors,” fulfilling ...

Neven’s law states that quantum computers are improving at a “doubly exponential” rate. If it holds, quantum supremacy is around the corner. In December 2018, scientists at Google AI ran a calculation ...

MY letter in NATURE of October 21 1, communicating Mr. Booth's correction on this subject, has elicited the information that the exponential integral solution for the absorption of the rays was given ...