It's hopeful stuff, but I think it's a premature metaphor to
   draw to evolution.

   The timeline of Moore's Law was wrong and it's been wrong for a
   long time, even in the 90s.

   I personally think it's a distraction from the fact that we're
   getting to a point where we can't progress much faster in
   technology until we change the way we design chips. They're 2D,
   they need to be 3D [I have some ideas regarding using
   crystalline structures and copper, dissolving the crystals
   leaving behind the copper and filling in the rest with
   semiconductor goo of some kind.... and THEN figuring out how to
   program it..]

   Anyway, do I think we're due for an explosion? Maybe... but
   Unfortunately, it think it just means we're reaching the limits
   that we can continue in the direction we've gone into.

   Maybe that's the point: the hardware will not progress much, but
   the software may.

   Maybe with redirected efforts towards using what we have, we
   might be able to program our current machines better and more
   efficiently to be able to do more stuff.

   We'll have to to do more with less, as our expectations will
   continue to grow, but the hardware will remain more or less the
   same.

   Looking at the current crop of programming languages though,
   they've gone in the direction of being more and more complicated
   and bloated, rather than leaner and more efficient.

   There's been a lot more eye-candy and a lot less deep
   innovation.

   I don't mean to be negative. I think progress in inexpensive
   storage and networking is a HUGE deal as is increasing abilities
   using 3D immersive technologies.

   We're close to a "chicken in every pot" - everybody gets a
   computer of some kind world.

   But we're also in an era of corporate dominance over these same
   technologies.. which can stifle innovation by making it more and
   more difficult to create novel approaches to things.

   Then again, more and more kids are learning programming and
   fresh minds that get bored with what they're given will drive
   themselves to do more with what older generations like mine
   can't see yet.

   So, I'm still hopeful. I'm waiting for a BIG CHANGE in how we do
   things with computers and the internet.

   For example: Web pages. Why are we still delivering flat pages
   that we can barely interact with? The stuff the www is built on
   is old, duct-taped together stuff. HTML has been around since
   1993 and really hasn't changed a whole lot. Javascript is used
   to manipulate items on the page, but it makes the experience so
   slow when a website designer wants to be innovative, that older
   computers have trouble typing a simple facebook message.

   Yet, the newer computers are not going to get any much faster.

   But the demands for innovation will continue.

   So, where will the innovation come from?

   Hopefully, something new. Hopefully. Smartphones are leading the
   way now, as kids are getting used to tablets just as we were
   used to TVs and it's an integrated part of their existence.

   So I'm hopeful. I believe any evolutionary-style changes though,
   will be the results of a generation growing up with
   interconnected computers and all of the services on it... and
   THEN deciding to make something _better_ with it, than what they
   were handed by us.

   So GenZ has my hopes pinned on them.