If the NHS IT project were designed like the net, hospitals and GPs would have more flexibility in the choice of their systems – essential when technology doubles computer processing speed and halves storage costs every 18 months.
Computer engineer Moore, the 70-year-old co-founder of processing-chip giant Intel Corp., is widely known for his observation that innovations were doubling computer processing power every 18 to 24 months.
From the advent of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer-chip fabrication technology in the 1970s until about 1986, speed-up in computer architecture was driven by doubling computer word size the amount of information the processor can manipulate per cycle.
As flat-panel televisions increasingly double as computer monitors for users to go online, and as video games migrate from consoles and personal computers to hand-held devices, the ITA's scope is narrowing.
According to Jeff Weitzen, the company's chief operating officer and president "our asps [average selling prices] at those stores are double the computer retailing numbers: $2,200 versus $1,200.
Acer laptops are back on the shelves at Circuit City and CompUSA, put-ting the company on course to double its computer sales in the U.S. this year to better than $1 billion.
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America's advanced cellphone network is already beginning to be bogged down by smartphones that double as computers, navigation devices and e-book readers.
The difficulty of human adaptation is, in turn, likely to get worse, he added, because technological innovation — as in Moore's Law (predicting a doubling of computer capacity roughly every two years) — grows exponentially in scope.
