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At a different level, scientific research that is underway in Atlanta can immediately be challenged and improved upon by suggestions that might come the next day from Beijing. The invention of networks that copy and transmit almost costlessly any type of information that humans are capable of producing will someday probably be rank with the invention of writing or, later, the invention of the printing press as technologies that have profoundly altered the course of civilization.

I am also not alone in suspecting that these new technologies will ultimately transform the work place and economic systems more than did the "wondrous inventions of the industrial revolution" two hundred years ago. The industrial revolution changed the world profoundly by providing mechanical substitutes for human and animal muscles and energy, amplifying what humans could accomplish beyond the wildest dreams of previous generations.

I believe that the information revolution is likely to change the world even more profoundly by providing silicon and fiber-based substitutes and enhancements not for our muscles but for our brains. If I am correct, the new tools will also eventually amplify what we humans can accomplish beyond most of our wildest imaginations.

The key reason that excitement is justified now has to do with the laws of physics, and the exponential improvements in communications and computing technologies that are being delivered by quantum mechanics. Advances in microchip technologies, for example, are proceeding at an exponential pace, with efficiencies in computer processing roughly doubling every 18 months.


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