Ritchie and Roser published a 2023 study on Our World in Data.
Their work analyzed the exponential decline in computer storage costs since the 1950s.
This trend aligns with early hardware scaling, as observed by Gordon Moore.
Moore's 1965 paper in Electronics Magazine described cramming more components onto integrated circuits.
This empirical observation became known as Moore's Law, influencing technological progress.
Examples
- The cost of solar PV modules has also seen significant price reductions.
- Battery prices have similarly experienced a notable decline over time.
- The cost of sequencing a human genome has fallen dramatically since 2001.
- Internet transit pricing per Mbps also decreased substantially from 1998 to 2015.
Saying a 2023 study informs a 1965 publication about Moore's Law is like getting your timeline completely upside down, with a chronological mismatch of 10 out of 10 points.
Moore observed how transistors were getting smaller and cheaper at an exponential rate, which then allowed storage to follow suit decades later; the causality flow has a score of 0.1, meaning it barely exists in the direction claimed.
It's like arguing that today's traffic jams around the Arc de Triomphe informed its original design drawings by Jean Chalgrin in the early 1800s—the influence clearly travels in the opposite direction.