Some observers have stated that Moore’s Law is nothing more than a self-fulfilling prophecy: that industry participants anticipate where they need to be at particular times in the future, and organize their research and development accordingly. The industry’s own written road map is a good example of this.34 However, the exponential trends in information technology are far broader than those covered by Moore’s Law. We see the same types of trends in essentially every technology or measurement that deals with information. This includes many technologies in which a perception of accelerating
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