Well, no. When people talk of "Moore's law", they really imply that there's a huge class of problems that get solved automatically just because transistors get

Well, no. When people talk of "Moore's law", they really imply that there's a huge class of problems that get solved automatically just because transistors get smaller and smaller. This hasn't been true for a long while now. Yes, technology get better with time, but we don't get things like 32 cores in a PC just because transistors shrunk; smart people worked really hard to optimize this stuff. TL;DR - there's no more free lunch in computing anymore.