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 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 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 will only be a mere 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 times more powerful see not a billion and if computing power increased at th of its current pace i e instead of doubling increasing at one one hundredth of per annum the resulting increase in power would be just computers would be 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 utc may