Lily instinctively withdrew her iPhone as soon as it chimed in her pocket. One swipe and Lily found out that there was another large earthquake in Nepal.As Lily was running late, she asked SIRI when the next Gold-line train would arrive at Union Station. she walked to the platform, she noticed a sign for 20% off at DSW so she scanned the QR symbol and got the coupon on her phone.Lily stopped at Starbucks for a Hazelnut Frappuccino and paid by simply holding her phone up to the touchless reader and using the Touch ID biometric sensor. this happened in a matter of minutes and yet it shows how Lily’s everyday life is surrounded by technology. Many of us are likewise connected through the use of computers and smart devices. How did the technology get here and how did it get here so fast?

According to Yahoo Finance, this month marks the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that seeks to predict how computing would increase in power and decrease in cost at an exponential rate. Moore’s Law is about shrinking transistors and adding more of them to integrated circuits. “The more transistors you can get onto a chip, the more that chip can do.” allows us to be able to put computing into every object in our lives and as a result make such gadgets more useful. the next 10 years, a computer will be able to see and understand the world around it. Examples given by Intel’s futurist, Steve Brown, include driverless cars and computers that can be “in, on and going through” our bodies to monitor health conditions.

What other possibilities will we see in the next 10 years? I can envision personal “drones” that fly about running errands and making deliveries. More powerful computers should allow more intelligent cataloging of information and search engines to organize data and remove duplicates and erroneous data for research and analytics. Microscopic computers and robots will not only monitor our bodies’ health conditions, but also will be able to perform micro surgery to repair torn ligaments or muscles, remove damaged or cancerous cells, remove blood clots, repair heart valves, and reduce spinal bone spurs that cause pinched nerves.

The possibilities are limited only by our imagination and dreams. We can reach those dreams because according to Moore’s Law, we are advancing technology faster than ever before.