there's something called moore's law, named for gordon moore.orked at intel. the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can basically double the computing power of a computing chip every 18 months or so. power exple.what really made the every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. you had smaller which led to faster which led to cheaper. >> under any other field of consumer products things get more expensive over time, houses, refrigerators, milk. but not technology. one of the striking things about the development of hardware during the 1980s was the fact that it was getting so much powerful so rapidly that there developed a strong tendency on people who were go to buy a computer, should i buy a computer today? no, if i wait six months i can get twice the computer. >> the reason we are attracted, to computers, is it is a power tool that gives me power that i feel i should have had but nature left me without. and i can now exploit mor