Perhaps the self advertising character of this article would be somewhat abrogated by a little criticism In this article he writes Remember one of the rules when it comes to technology is Moore s law that the computing power that can fit on a microchip doubles just under every two years If this trend holds true as it has for the past several decades Australia s Force 2030 will be operating in a world in which our information technology will be a billion times more powerful than today Notably this isn t an amorphous billion as Dr Evil would pontificate in the movie Austin Powers but literally taking the power of our current computers multiplying it by 1 000 000 000 But imagine if that law doesn t hold true and Moore s Law works out at only a hundredth of its past pace Then the computers that power robots in the era of Force 2030 will only be a mere 1 000 000 times more powerful Ironically his grasp of numeric quantities is probably even further off than Dr Evil s If computing power doubles every two years for twenty years the resulting increase in computing power would be just 1024 times more powerful 2 10 1024 see not a billion And if computing power increased at 1 100th of its current pace i e instead of doubling increasing at one one hundredth of 2 0 02 per annum the resulting increase in power would be just 1 02 10 computers would be 1 21899442 times as powerful as those today All this would probably be more relevant if he even managed to get Moore s Law correct in the first place Moore s Law did not relate to computing power but to the density of transistors in a given area In practical terms a doubling of the number of transistors doubling of computing power so we CERTAINLY aren t going to facing armies of Terminators a billion times more computationally powerful than the robots of today I shudder to think that this is the quality of strategic advice being given to the highest eschalons of the US government 0 20 UTC 11 May 2009