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Dramatic increases in computer speed have been achieved over the past 40 years, but this trend will come to an end with traditional electronic technologies. The limiting factors are the speed at which information can travel and the distance it has to travel within a computer. The former is limited by the speed of light.
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Loo, A.WS. (2007). The Need for More Powerful Computers. In: Peer-to-Peer Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-747-3_3
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