In rec.crafts.metalworking, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote:
State-of-the-art stuff. Is there a rule similar to Moore's Law for
tech? Everything has made fantastic jumps since I was playing
around with it in the late '80s, that's for sure.
Once tech reaches Good Enough the improvements slow way down. Maximum
CPU clock speed leveled off around 4 GHz quite a while ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...tel_processors

I doubt most people would recognize a Boeing 707 airliner or an F-4
Phantom fighter built in 1958 as being a quaint half-century-old
antique, and today's models aren't even faster.

Here's a great talk about Moore's Law that also uses a long detailed
aircraft history analogy to talk about that "Good Enough" barrier:

http://idlewords.com/talks/web_desig..._100_years.htm

A quote from the middle:

These are the victories of good enough. This stuff is fast enough.

Intel could probably build a 20 GHz processor, just like Boeing can
make a Mach 3 airliner. But they won't. There's a corrollary to
Moore's law, that every time you double the number of transistors,
your production costs go up. Every two years, Intel has to build a
completely new factory and production line for this stuff. And the
industry is turning away from super high performance, because most
people don't need it.

Certainly the first half of if it is going to be relevant to people not
in the original audience of web designers. The author has a smooth
insightful way to mock things.

Elijah
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