Information: The Ultimate Frontier.

Branscomb, Lewis M.

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Publication Date: 1979-Jan

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Information: The Ultimate Frontier.

Branscomb, Lewis M.

Science, v203 n4376 p143-47 Jan 1979

A 100-year scenario of the future of information technology. To achieve inexpensive, high-speed, and small computers, new techniques are likely to replace silicon technology. The ultimate computer might be biological and patterned on DNA. Future computers will require information rather than store it. Light wave communication will broaden communications exchange. (BB)

Descriptors: Computer Science, Computers, Cybernetics, Futures (of Society), Information Science, Information Theory, Prediction, Science Education, Technological Advancement, Technology

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Language: English

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