The need for new digital capabilities
A transformation is underway where technology has started to touch every facet of our society: from communication to medicine and farming to manufacturing and more. In our daily lives, communication systems, ubiquitous sensors, and wearable devices are beginning to melt the boundary between the physical and digital worlds.
Computing power in the world has grown exponentially over the past four decades. Moore's law is still holding, with the number of transistors in a Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) doubling over a period of approximately 2 years. Moore's law is actually based on an observation from Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel (see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-gordon-moore-law.html). The cost of computing continues to trend lower. This is an enabler for digital transformation. Here, our focus will be on emerging technologies that are enablers of digital transformation, which is underway.
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