"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. -Allen Bartlett What she is complaining about is that a e

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. -Allen Bartlett What she is complaining about is that a exponential trend (Moore's law leading to more compute) is stuttering. In this case it was just for one company and the world was lucky and had backup options. But undoubtedly there will be more stutters in the future, and there will not always be backups. Science relying on an exponential trend like this it will have more challenges in the future. Same for all the the other trends built around brute force compute like "big AI" deep learning or a lot of the wasteful programming practices that fill the front pages of HN regularly.