Law 1C: Moore's Law is your friend - page 1

In 1965, Gordon Moore postulated that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 2 years. Current usage has generalized and exaggerated this "law" to mean:

   "Technology keeps getting better by double every year or two".

My own version would be:

   "Change is occurring at an ever increasing rate".

And I don't mean to single out Moore's Law here. There is always the threat that Moore's Law may end soon. But there are many other phenomena going on which contribute to the same effect. Market pressures, aesthetics, social awareness, the state of many arts, not just transistor physics, are all also creating change and improving things. If we reach the end of Moore's road with transistor physics, all these other forces will still conspire to continue the trend in other ways. (EG, multiple cores, vertical stacking, deeper pipelines.)

Thus my generalization of Moore's Law does not even reference Moore. I mean simply that "Change is occurring at an ever increasing rate -- no matter what the cause".

Pushing the edges tends to create linear change. It gives a steady improvement. That can be good, but is also a great way to add complexity, problems, bugs, and glitches. 

OTOH, Moore's (and Swift's) Laws give you an improvement in the very fabric that your product is made from, giving you exponential improvements for free.