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In this presentation, Kurzweil refers to Cooper's Law. We're familiar with (and daily enjoy the benefits of) Moore's Law, which predicts an exponential increase in the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit, progress that began in the early 1970s: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law> Cooper's Law predicts an exponential increase in the number of "conversations" (voice or data) that can theoretically be conducted over a given area in all of the useful radio spectrum, a progression that began with Marconi in the early 1900's: <http://www.arraycomm.com/serve.php?page=Cooper> Martin Cooper was the lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the handheld mobile phone. 73, Dave, AA6YQ