Technology, science, and inventions have progressed at an accelerated rate during the hundred

years of the 20th century, more so than any other century in history.
We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those
inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder.
We end the 20th century with spaceships, laptop computers, ipads and tablets, iphones, and the
wireless Internet all being technologies that today, we take for granted.
One of the reasons for this incredible amount of progress is directly linked to computer
technology, and Moores Law which states that in the history of computing hardware, the
number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years.
This law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who described the trend in a paper
he wrote back in 1965.
He wrote that the number of components on integrated circuits had doubled every year from the
invention of the integrated circuit back in 1958 until 1965 and he predicted that the trend would
continue "for at least ten years", which proved to be true.
Because of this, we have made incredible progress in nearly all aspects of daily life, including
computer technology, medicine, science and communication.