Computing power — the mixture of faster processors, denser storage and higher bandwidth — will expand by a factor of about 100,000 in the next decade, some say. I say, “Yikes.”
More in my Sunday column.
Patent Nonsense Discussed in the National Media
Last Sunday Jim Gleick weighed in with a brilliant article on the absurdity of today’s patent system, and the threat it represents to innovation.
Today, it’s Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’s turn: Firestorm in Cyberspace.
More Nonsense from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Here’s a patented method of sending a “signal at a speed faster than light”!
As The Register, a British technology-news site, notes: “It is lucky that the US Patent Office pays for itself, otherwise US taxpayers might want to know why the organisation is hiring people who haven’t got even the slightest clue about modern physics.”