Whether you are a student, a gamer, a physicist, an accountant, or even a newborn; Computers play a vital role in our lives. However, most people seem to take them for granted. Even though computers have only been around for about a hundred years, it's hard to believe that we once lived without them. So how did we go from computers the size of an apartment to computers that fit in a watch? Transistor! Transistors are the fundamental components of modern electronic devices (e.g., computers, video games, cell phones, radios, and TVs). The status quo in today's society is “the more the merrier,” but is this the case with transistors? If the last forty years are any indication, then yes, the more transistors, the better! The first computer that we are most associated with today was invented in 1946. The ENIAC or Electronic Numerical Calculator and Integrator, was considered by most to be the first fully functional digital computer. Unlike modern computers, the ENIAC was the size of a large apartment, partly due to its vacuum tubes, which were very similar to light bulbs. Imagine nearly 20,000 light bulbs lit in your home. Not only would your electric bill be a little higher than normal, but the heat generated by these pipes would be miserable. Vacuum tubes helped pave the way for the transistor, which was developed in 1954 at Bell Labs by Morris Tanenbaum. Webster's dictionary defines a transistor as: a solid-state electronic device used to control the flow of electricity in electronic equipment and usually consists of a small block of semiconductor (such as germanium) with at least three electrodes. Computers are everywhere. Just because you don't own a laptop or desktop computer doesn't mean you don't encounter c...... half of paper...... triple the amount every year. Based on the history of the number of transistors in a chip per year, it is not foolish to predict that by 2019 we could see over a hundred billion transistors per microchip, and by 2025 well over a trillion. From the very first computers that took up an entire room, to devices that now do virtually anything you want from the palm of your hand; with the use of modern nanotechnology, size will no longer be a problem. Based on the increase in the number of transistors since 1971, I believe we should expect the number of transistors per chip to be not just in the billions but in the trillions within the next decade. We may simply bite off more than we can chew, however, if the other CPU components manage to assert their importance, who knows what the next few decades will bring. Trillions of transistors on a single processor chip are no longer a dream, but an expectation.