{"id":7510,"date":"2012-10-03T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ietransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2012-10-03T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:43:25","slug":"moores-law-planned-obsolescence-construct-a-technology-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/articles\/moores-law-planned-obsolescence-construct-a-technology-traffic-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore’s Law & Planned Obsolescence Construct a Technology Traffic Jam: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part III: In 1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore boldly predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years. He was right.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

To partially understand how the increased production of new products leaped into the stratosphere, take a 40-year step back to 1965, a time when the computer and chip industries were in their nascent stages. At that time, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, a man donning a pair of visionary goggles and a remarkable engineering aptitude, boldly predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years. His prediction turned out to be accurate \u2013 even if few understood what he was saying at the time \u2013 and came to be known as Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n

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Network cables and servers at a technology center from Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moore\u2019s Law wasn\u2019t just prescient, the growth of the computer and storage industries soon resembled exponential calculations. And as they grew, the products that were created had drastically shortened lifespans making the original definition of planned obsolescence seem like child\u2019s play. Put under the microscopic perspective of a biologist, a fungus had been born that received its only nutrition from nothing other than the ether.<\/p>\n

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Gordon Moore Credit: OnInnovation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now almost a half-century past and well beyond the first decade of this new century, many contend Moore\u2019s Law is dead. Carl Anderson, an IBM researcher for server design, claims Moore’s Law is not only in the mortuary, it is entirely predictable. Exponential growth eventually ends in every industry. Think of the railroads, of Wells Fargo\u2019s first industry, of the Pony Express \u2013 their growth quotients were being reformulated. Their matrix for unlimited growth had become impossible. They were functionally obsolete \u2013 dead yet, but ready to order caskets.<\/p>\n

Should we expect that something would evolve from the end of Moore\u2019s Law? People and manufacturers have long existed with the ingrained capacity to create something newer and better, something that creates a new roadmap for growth and its spectacular act of expansion.<\/p>\n

Yet we\u2019ve now learned the earth is not always so able to support such an infinite production food chain. Newer and better models or not, this globe\u2019s once perfect playground for great imaginings that never stopped growing is not so able to support all expectations, especially when by 2050 the glum number of 9 billion folks start writing down this planet\u2019s name as their return address on the corner of the envelope.<\/p>\n

Next:\u00a0Planned Obsolescence & the Balloon That Popped –\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Few can forget the housing bubble that climaxed in 2007\/2008 before someone slammed on the brakes. Said bubble \u2013 or was it a zeppelin \u2013 was once perfect demo of planned obsolescence and Brook Stevens\u2019 mantra, \u201cInstilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos: Gordon Moore from\u00a0\u00a0OnInnovation<\/a>,\u00a0Network cables and servers at a technology center from Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n

About this report:\u00a0The following series on planned obsolescence is taken from a book Glenn Meyers presently writing, \u201cThe Growth Quotient.\u201d Here is an archive of these posts:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. The Greatest Invention: Planned Obsolescence \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The Freight Train for Planned Obsolescence Jumps to High-Speed Tracks \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Moore\u2019s Law & Planned Obsolescence Construct a Technology Traffic Jam: Part 3<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Planned Obsolescence & the Bubble That Burst: Part 4<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Unplanned Obsolescence & the Texas Back Roads: Part 5<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Planned Obsolescence and the Bic Effect \u2013 Part 6<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. The Evolution of Planned Obsolescence: Innovation\u2019s Litter – Part 7<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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