The future of chip speeds (Score 1)

I think it's important to announce my latest calculations with regard to chip speeds. Note that the calculations are totally correct, check them yourselves! Note also that I'm not claiming that my premises are correct. Anyway, following Moore's law, and assuming that chips in 1972 ran at about 1.5MHz, we find that, on production processors:

• 2002 we should exceed 1.6 GHz, achieving microwave frequencies
• 2005 we exceed 3.1 GHz, or infrared frequencies
• 2026 400 GHz (we'll start using microns from here on out), or .7 microns. In other words, visible red light.
• 2032 0.19 microns, or ultraviolet radiation
• 2044 0.01 microns, or hard ultraviolet
• 2050 0.003 microns, or X-rays
• 2080 2E-6 microns, or gamma radiation

In other words:

• In 2032, The stereotypical programmer will no longer be pale and pasty looking. Geeks will be associated with the fine bronzed appearance they get from their UV-emitting processor Undoubtedly it will become fashionable to look pale and pasty.
• In 2050, it will no longer be necessary to go to the hospital for X-rays. Your machine can do updates every 30 seconds, so we can keep an eye out for the various cancers caused by sitting near an X-ray emitting chip all day. We'll have sites that have live feeds from people's "X-ray cams". Many people's cats will become mysteriously bald and patchy.
• In 2080, food poisoning will become a thing of the past, as everyone can irradiate their food simply by putting on top of the computer. Or, since, embedded computers will be everywhere, just lean it against the dishwasher, or maybe next to your alarm clock.

  Everyone will have a healthy glow too!

Yes, the future has a lot of interesting things in store...