In 1965, Gordon Moore, who later founded Intel Corporation, wrote an essay for Electronics Magazine. In it, he attempted to do the impossible – predict the future. He opined that the newly trendy technology of computer chips would become doubly powerful every two years at low cost, and they would eventually be so small, that they could be embedded in homes, cars and what he referred to as “personal portable communications equipment.” That’s right, he predicted mobile phones.

For once, a prophecy came through with flying colours – his theory, now known as Moore’s Law, has been the bedrock of modern computing. People have likened Moore’s Law to Silicon Valley’s beating heart – it powered the massive revolution in electronics that led us to the iPhone, the Internet and even greater advances like genome sequencing and drug discovery.