#TwistedTropes 18. Moore's obsolete law

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Moore’s Law is named after Bobby Moore, an electronics expert who also captained England to win the final of the football world cup in 1966 (I don't think this is entirely accurate - Editor).

A year earlier in 1965, Moore saw that transistors were shrinking so fast that every year twice as many could fit onto a chip. In 1975 he predicted the pace would double every two years. Later that year Moore retired after scoring his final two goals (known as a double) in a second division match against Scunthorpe FC.

Moore is less, apparently, because his law isn't holding up any more. Some people say Moore's law is now dead, while others suggest it is in intensive care and in need of resuscitation. The problem with Moore's law is that like any other law, it is only good until something better comes along, or the circumstances change. Rapid technical advances down the wing have caused problems, and Moore's law is slowing down, just as Bobby did in the years before he retired from football (this football thing is simply not true - Editor). Moore's law was a very successful marketing ploy, but it simply hasn't got the legs anymore, and it looks like an own goal has (right, enough of the football metaphors. I'm closing this post down - Editor).

Next time: 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall

Previous posts in the #TwistedTropes series
1. Pavlov's drooling dog
2. Chekhov's smoking gun
3. Occam's bloody razor
4. Schrödinger’s undead cat
5. Pandora's closed box
6. Frankenstein's well-meaning monster
7. Thor's lost hammer
8. Noah's character ark
9. Hobson's multiple choice
10. Fibonacci's annoying sequence
11. Sod's unlucky law
12. Dante's lukewarm inferno
13. Plato's empty cave
14. Aladdin's miserly lamp
15. Batman's tangled cape
16. Cupid's bent arrow
17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem


Moore's obsolete law by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's