Moore's Law

For years things have been improving. Faster and faster things were coming out of the blue. Well this is because of something called, Moore’s Law.

It states that:

“The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months”

In other words, a product can and will double its productivity every eighteen months. If this were true! It would affect the entire world of consumerism. We are all consumers of some form or another.

One thing I consume a lot is music products. Everything is improving and changing in the music world. For a small example, there actually wasn’t an inventor of the distorted sound! Actually, the first time anyone had heard a distorted guitar was from a street performer in the early 1900’s. His amp was broken! When this distorted sound became the hip new thing, it was naturally high in demand! So guitar companies started making their amps distorted. Then there was the very first amp that could play both distorted and clean sounds! People bought this new item of amazing ness like crazy! They told a friend, and the friend told a friend, and soon everyone knew what was going on.

The exact same thing happened w/ the release of the iPod. At first it was a portable tape player, then a walk man! Those were a huge craze that swept the nation. Then out came this amazing new device that could hold tons of songs and you could choose what you wanted to listen to anytime! It was a phenomenon!

Every product we will ever see will / has started out small! But eventually (as Moore’s Law predicts) the product began selling and selling. You can think of almost anything that’s become mainstream / quota / normal society. Such as Starbucks, Wal-Mart, iPod, colored television! Everything has proven that Moore’s law exists.

Now, whether or not the fact of Moore’s Law will help or hurt society… well let’s be honest! No one knows! But it’s pretty much inevitable! People naturally (even with out them know it) push and encourage Moore’s Law. Our greed and natural consumerism is the soul creator of Moore’s law! We want the iTouch, we want that new car, and we want that tasty generic cereal brand! And of course us always wanting to improve things and make things better than anyone else’s. And when we do that, we find ourselves creating something that could very well be another chain link in the Moore’s Law theory.

Sites:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.html

http://news.cnet.com/Myths-of-Moores-Law/2010-1071_3-1014887.html

http://news.cnet.com/Music,-morality-and-Moores-Law/2010-1071_3-281362.html