Wikipedia explains Moore's Law as......
Since the early 1970s, the increase in capacity of microprocessors has followed Moore's law; this originally suggested that the number of transistors that can be fitted onto a chip doubles every year, though Moore later refined the period to two years.....

Now, certainly I wouldn't think this type of success is reasonable to hold true for all technology, but wouldn't it be correct to expect it in some other fields outside the computer chip industry? If so, which ones? Which sciences would we expect to evolve so rapidly? What tech appears to have failed most spectacularly? THEN, did it really fall short or was success covered up by TPTB?

For example, many people say that we probably should have cars running on water or even air by now. Of course, I have seen a number of conspiracies stating that it has been done and the people involved were killed off, bought off, or silenced in one way or another. We can all see how technology has exploded in the public view over the last 20-40-60-80-100 years, etc. Where would we most want Moore's Law to apply?

Sorry if I have been too vague, but in my mind the subject matter opens a gazillion possibilities. I was hoping this would be a productive "what if" exercise. Thanks for input.

Education.

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Bucky Fuller and Robert Anton Wilson wrote extensively about this subject. The keyword to search for is "ephemeralization" or "doing more and more with less and less". It's a result of the technological snowball effect -- the more we learn the more quickly we learn new things. Fuller in particular included much numerical data on this subject. Try his book "Critical Path" for charts and such.