Chip speed breakthrough will change our lives

A number of online sites have linked to a New York Times story about what is being reported as a ground-breaking change in the way computers will process information. What, exactly, the impact of those changes will be in our day-to-day lives remains unclear to me, as of this writing.
But scientists certainly seem excited about the prospects for a “bold new vision of the digital future”.
C|NET offers another perspective on this important breaking story, as do the folks at the online computer journal The EE Times. Reuters’ ace tech reporter Daniel Sorid writes about the potential blurring of the worlds of computing and communication in his story, available here.