The same--only more so?

The article reports on the views of readers on the technologies that they thought would propel the next big surge in economic activity. A group of respondents argued that information technology (IT) is a long way from exhausting its potential. They also expected to see a powerful new economic engine...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 361; no. 8251; pp. 12 - 13
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/8/2001
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Sumario:The article reports on the views of readers on the technologies that they thought would propel the next big surge in economic activity. A group of respondents argued that information technology (IT) is a long way from exhausting its potential. They also expected to see a powerful new economic engine emerge that used new hardware components such as quantum computing. Several readers pointed out that the personal computer was on track to outstrip the human brain by 2020, and that supercomputers would do so by 2010.