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Serious question: Why would it? Isn’t “Moore’s Law” just an empirical observation about late 20th century technology that is trotted out in front of undergradua
by Myrmornis 9y ago
Serious question: Why would it? Isn’t “Moore’s Law” just an empirical observation about late 20th century technology that is trotted out in front of undergraduates, confusing them about what a “law” even is? There’s not a theoretical reason to expect it to apply to any other information systems is it?
- addicted 9y agoMoore’s law confuses the hell out of me as a kid. It went against everything I understood about what a law meant, and it made an 8-9 year old me think that there was some mystical physical forces that essentially required processing speed to increase. I couldn’t understand how that worked and for the longest time thought either I was really stupid, or the whole world had lost its mind promoting something that obviously could not be true. It took a couple of years for me to realize that it simply wasn’t a “law” in the first place and to recognize differences in academic speak and popular media.
- tlrobinson 9y agoIf I had left out the phrase "Moore's Law-like" would the question have been less controversial? It's not that uncommon for new technologies to experience exponential improvement for some period of time. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable question to ask.