On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/12/2012 22:31, Russell Wallace wrote: > > Hell, for all any of us knows, Moore's Law might hit the end of the line > next year. I think even the most optimistic futurologists would agree that > would throw an awful lot of things out the window. > > > I think most would consider the idea of Moore's Law running out next year > to be > too silly to entertain. That's the sort of thing you can see coming. >
Actually, experience shows it is precisely the sort of thing even the experts do not see coming (see list of examples already given); thus, whether Moore's law is good for another decade or will run out next year, we would expect to observe the same thing today. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
