Forget Moore’s law, but not because it’s merely a commitment by the semiconductor industry to drive silicon gate technology forward 67 percent a year.
Forget Moore’s law, but not because it isn’t true. On the contrary, Moore’s law may be the truest “truth” about human events over the last half-century. In fact, while our understanding of the cosmos, particle physics, and brain chemistry gets revised almost by the month, Moore’s law-so fragile, so on the razor’s edge of knowledge, so at the mercy of human weakness-clicks on with the precision of an atomic clock. Indeed, there are days when Moore’s law seems the only thing we can still believe in.
But most of all, forget Moore’s law because it has become dangerous. It is a runaway train, roaring down a path to disaster, picking up speed at every turn, and we are now going faster than human beings can endure. If we dont figure out how to get off this train soon, we may destroy an industry.