• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Sure, but also no.

    More’s law is at the most fundamental level a observation about the exponential curve of technological progress.

    It was originally about semiconductor transistors and that is what Moore was specifically looking at but the observed pattern does 100% apply to other things.

    In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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      In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

      So we should start calling monitors computers, desktop towers modems (or CPUs (or hard drives)), wifi as internet, browsers as search engines and search engines as browsers. None of this is incorrect, according to the average person.