I think moore's law has spoiled a generation on what technology can do. It is extremely ridiculous that lithography has gotten so much better in the last few de

I think moore's law has spoiled a generation on what technology can do. It is extremely ridiculous that lithography has gotten so much better in the last few decades, and IMO it has resulted in a lot of people thinking that exponentials are a) common, and b) automatic. Neither of these are true. There are few, if any, other exponentials in the history of humanity that worked as consistently for as long with as massive of impacts on technology, and TBH I'm doubtful that we will see anything like it again. Moore's law worked because loads of engineers and scientists made it their life's work, but everyone watching seems to think it just happened. There was one magical exponential that changed the world, and it's coming to an end. There's certainly a lot that can be done in architecture and software, but most applications probably aren't worth the effort.