Gordon Moore himself wrote a couple of essays looking into the future computing. He could predict portable communications devices, but I think even he was shocked by the iPhone when it first emerged 50 years later. The wavelength of visible light has gotten far too broad to actually carve transistors in the way that we want. And so today there's just one company that is capable of producing the machines that are capable of providing this light at the scale and with the precision necessary.

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