A few days ago we gave the sad news of the death of Gordon Moore who, although he was a pioneer in the microprocessor industry, became famous for the law that bears his name. Now we will review other laws of technology.
Two years ago we had enumerated some funny remarks that were formulated in the form of laws. These are absolutely serious, although it does not mean that they are still valid.
What do we talk about when we talk about law?
In this context we are not using the word law in the legal sense of the word, since it is not a rule that carries a penalty if it is not complied with. A law is a description of how something works.and is usually the result of careful observations made over the years.
Whoever formulates the law is not obliged to explain the phenomenon, he only has to describe it.
Other laws of technology
We had mentioned Moore's law. It states that the number of integrated circuits that a microprocessor can contain doubles every two years. With the change in technology and the advent of quantum computing, Moore's law risks being left in the past.
Wirth's Law
Expressed by the computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, he maintains that software slows down at a rate greater than the growth of hardware processing power.
Kryder's Law
Kryder, a Seagate executive postulated that Hard drive storage capacity doubles in XNUMX months to XNUMX years. In other words, it increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard drive of a given size.
Meltcafe's Law
Formulated by one of the inventors of Ethernet, it states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users.
linus's laws
Linus Torvalds made two contributions to the laws of technology. The first says that the more people review the code, the easier it is to fix bugs.
The second asserts that people collaborate on open source projects for three reasons; survival, social life and entertainment.