>> are you kidding? >> as material sciences progress, more and more circuitry keeps getting put on smaller and smaller chips, circuit boards. so the closer together elements on a chip are, the faster the motion of signals between them. >> there was something called moore's law, named for gordon moore, one of the engineers who worked at intel. basically an observation computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computing power of a computer chip every 18 months or so. >> and this is what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s. because every...