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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
vannevar
/van'@?var/, n.
A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp.
one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly,
incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning
curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition
is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar Bush's prediction of ?electronic
brains? the size of the Empire State Building with a
Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and relays, a
prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been
demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included magnetic-bubble memory,
LISP machines, videotex, and a paper from the late 1970s that computed a
purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less
than the routine densities of 5 years later.
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2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
vannevar
/van'*-var/ A bogus technological prediction or a
foredoomed engineering concept, especially one that fails by
implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly,
incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact
the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions
are common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was
Vannevar Bush's prediction of "electronic brains" the size of
the Empire State Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent
cooling system for their tubes and relays, a prediction made
at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been
demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included
magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, videotex, and a
paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate
limit on areal density for integrated circuits that was in
fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later.
[Jargon File]
(2000-02-29)
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