Moore's Law and Communications
Last Sunday's column about Internet telephony brought a note from Martin Hellman, emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford (and co-inventor of public-key crytpography, one of the crucial inventions of the information age). He sent along a short opinion piece he'd written about why Moore's Law hadn't fully asserted itself in telecommunications. At my request he posted it on his site.
Read it here. Key quote: "Since switching can be accomplished by computational means (e.g. packet switching), the $0.50 of switching cost can be accomplished today at an infintesmal cost, approximately a billionth of a cent per minute, if it is done in the most cost-effective manner."
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