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s rapidly as technology is developed, it becomes superfluous. Current computers quickly become outdated. Here is a diptych image of the remnants of a sophisticated and delicate technology callously discarded into an outdoor trash heap. The information age continues to generate huge quantities of waste material. Discarded computer components are toxic objects that potentially can pollute groundwater supplies and harm both wildlife and humans.
“The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.” - Gordon E. Moore (original 1965 statement)
