Reverse Moore’s law (Lanier)

May 20th, 2007  |  Published in Quotes, Technology

There’s a reverse Moore’s law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

–Jaron Lanier in Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003), 70

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