Re:The Moore's Law blowout sale is ending
by bluedino on Friday December 06, 2013 @09:41AM
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Cars are miles ahead of where they were in 1983 (pardon the pun). Compare everything from a family sedan to a sports car of the current era to then. Tires, creature comforts, horsepower, emissions, fuel economy, safety...
Re:The Moore's Law blowout sale is ending
by ekianjo on Friday December 06, 2013 @11:18AM
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The comparison is moot. You can't drive 100 times faster with a car from 2013 than from 1983. With computers, you saw that huge progression in a matter of 10 years. Now what you have in your pocket is close to what used to run servers 10 years ago in terms of power (or maybe exceeds it). If at all, your argument strengthens my point that cars have stopped evolving in performance and now car manufacturers work on other attributes.
?? Centuries? You mean twenty/thirty years, probably? We don't really have computers until about 50 years ago, and even then it was not widespread.
You don't have to wonder what post-Moore's law will look like. Look at other industries when they become mature. The car industry is one example: there's not that much innovation that goes into making a car better in terms of performance. I mean, a car from 30 years ago may be less comfortable but still drives pretty well as long as it's maintained. What makes the difference then is not performance anymore but whatever added value you bring on it: durability, reliability, service, etc... no doubt sooner or later electronics makers will have to innovate in different directions as well.