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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
He didn’t really “predict” any of it though just as Gordon Moore didn’t “predict” that computers are going to get faster.
Extrapolation from existing data might be a better term. What you cite already existed in 1970, if in lesser amounts than today.
yarr@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
You’re right: Gordon Moore did not “predict” that computers would “get faster”. He stated that the numbers of transistors on a chip would continue to double every two years. It’s only semi-recently that this has started to peter out.
I guess you’re not happy with usage of the word “predict”? There were plenty of people who weren’t Alvin Toffler that used the same data in the 1970s and drew the opposite conclusions. Do you disagree with what Alvin says or are you just trivializing what he wrote because it seems obvious to you?