There is a crucial sentence in this old article: "But because of the recent rapid and radical progress in molecular electronics - where individual atoms and mol

There is a crucial sentence in this old article: "But because of the recent rapid and radical progress in molecular electronics - where individual atoms and molecules replace lithographically drawn transistors - and related nanoscale technologies, we should be able to meet or exceed the Moore's law rate of progress for another 30 years." As far as I can tell, this expectation has not proved correct. Instead, we are getting talks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g