How could a 2023 study by Ritchie and Roser possibly inform a 1965 publication from Gordon Moore? That's a 58-year time differential, which barely registers as direct influence.
Sure, the long-term trend of declining storage costs aligns with Moore's observations, but it functions more as retrospective validation at a ratio of perhaps 1:100 for actual informing.
The Ritchie and Roser data offers a quantified historical perspective on what Moore identified decades earlier, not a forward-looking input.
It's like saying today's average grade of 4.5 in my math class informed the Swiss education system's curriculum development back in the 1960s; the causal arrow points the other way, or is at least extremely curved.