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SOCIAL MEDIA: CHANGING TIMES AND INCREASED RISK (2016-02-03)

Article by Terrance M. Booysen

Many technologists across the world were completely bewildered by the claim Gordon E. Moore made in 1965, when he boldly predicted the rate of change the world would undergo through the rapid development of technology.

Famously known as “Moore’s Law”; it supports the notion that every two years the components found on integrated circuits would double, and the size of the components would half in the same period.  Simply put, this means that the computing power in various computerised devices is doubling every two years and the size of these devices -- which most of us use on a daily basis -- is becoming more powerful, and more pervasive.  Of course, Moore’s predictions have come to pass, and in fact these predictions may even have exceeded his original thinking.  One just needs to consider the average computing power found in cell phones, laptops and Personal Device Assistants (‘PDAs’) which are owned by most ordinary citizens.

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