Seeing as the Herald on Sunday don’t seem to have got its act together to put my Tomorrow’s World Sci/tech columns online, I thought I’d post the last two including graphic editor Phil Welch’s table showing the evolution of Moore’s Law.
CHIPPING AWAY AT MOORE’S LAW
Remember those chunky beige computers and brick-like mobile phones that pop [...]
What follows is part I of a two part series of interviews with two of the best brains in computer giant IBM. The interview below is with Dr. Don Eigler, a nanotechnology expert at IBM. Don was a pleasure to interview and it’s also heartening that he likes New Zealand enough to keep his sailing [...]
Finally, in this satellite special, an interview I did with one of my literary heroes, Arthur C. Clarke. I’d always wanted to talk to Clarke but though the sci-fi Arthur’s age and ill-health and my position as a lowly IT reporter would preclude any contact.
Then I happened to be at some boring geekfest, I can’t [...]