The future, so colorful, so confused: impressions from the Hong Kong exhibition “Metaverse”.
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Dusseldorf Many will not associate anything special with November 15, 1971. The modern world changed that day. Intel launched the 4004 microprocessor. The first one-chip microprocessor that was mass-produced and based on silicon – the namesake of Silicon Valley.
We all know the rest of the story: year after year, Intel and other companies invented ever more powerful semiconductors. The 4004 could handle 92,000 operations per second – today Apple’s M1 chip can handle 10.4 trillion. In just 50 years, computer computing capacity has grown by an unbelievable factor of a billion.
As computing power increased, computers shrank before our eyes. The smartphone in your pocket has long been a matter of course. In the past few decades, digital technology laid the foundation for a new information age. Every clearing of the throat or every screw is measured, analyzed and optimized.
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