All are surfing Moore’s Law, a six-decade wave of rising computational capacity. Transistor power—which is how you measure the size of this wave—is often calculated in FLOPS, or floating operations per second. In 1956, our computers were capable of ten thousand FLOPS. In 2015, this had become one quadrillion FLOPS. And it’s this trillionfold improvement that’s been the most important force driving technology forward. Yet, over the past few
