The article also quotes a misinterpetation of a misstatement of Moore's Law: > "Computers [have] doubled in power every 18 months for the last 40 years." This

The article also quotes a misinterpetation of a misstatement of Moore's Law: > "Computers [have] doubled in power every 18 months for the last 40 years." This, along with the salary estimate you mentioned made all the numbers in the article quite suspect. That doesn't necessarily invalidate whatever point the author was trying to make, but it does cast a shadow of lack of seriousness on the whole article.