The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
How far can we push computing?
On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” There is no physical law stopping us from writing the entire Encyclopædia Britannica on the head of a pin, he argued. We simply had not built the tools yet.
He was right, and for decades,
How far can we push computing?
On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” There is no physical law stopping us from writing the entire Encyclopædia Britannica on the head of a pin, he argued. We simply had not built the tools yet.
He was right, and for decades,
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