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TopicRepulsive7936 t1_j7x51j0 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Wizards_Tower in The copium goes both ways by IndependenceRound453

>Moore's Law is actually very unusual in that almost no other technologies follow an exponential trend like that, especially not for as long as Moore's Law has held.

Not special to transistors, mechanical computers, relays and vacuum tubes exhibited these trends as well, all slightly accelerating from previous one.

To call the ability to process information a technology is I think slightly disrespectful as it underlays all applications of technology, it's the primus motor of everything.

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The_Wizards_Tower t1_j7x80s3 wrote

You’re right in that information/communications technologies as a whole have developed rapidly over the last century. This is part of Robert Gordon’s idea of an overall innovation slowdown (lots of progress in bits, very linear progress almost everywhere else).

I don’t buy his whole argument or his outlook for the future, I just wanted to dispute the idea that exponentials are a guaranteed and perpetually ongoing trend.

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