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A Billionfold

By The Daily Dish

Feb 26 2008, 7:26 AM ET

The future of electronics:

As chips are progressively able to perform more calculations for less money, and in a package that's continually shrinking, Kurzweil told the Game Developers Conference audience to look for the price-to-performance ratio of computers to improve a billionfold in the next 25 years.

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