What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over.

— Ray Kurzweil The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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