Add Murphy’s Law to Moore’s Law
July 13th, 2009 at 08:55pm Under Computer Law
The battle for an enhanced and exponential rise in consciousness between now and 2012 is not going to be a walk in the park by any means. We’ve got Moore’s Law going for us, but we’ve got Murphy’s law standing in the way. Moore’s law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958. It simply says the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
In essence, man’s computational ability, via computers, is moving off the charts. We have more and more brain power at our disposal to become greater- faster.
The trend was first observed by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper. It has continued for half of a century and is not expected to stop for another decade at least and perhaps much longer. Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the number and size of pixels- and so on. But then we have Murphy’s law!
Murphy’s law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states, “If anything can go wrong, it will.” It is also cited as: “If there’s more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way”. Or, “Anything that can go wrong, will.” In a less dramatic fashion, the law can be expressed as “Anything that has a probablility of happening greater than 0 can and will happen. No exceptions.” The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod’s law or Finagle’s law.
The WHAT that can go WRONG is a vast list of probabilities that extend from new age cults, extraterrestrial appartitions by wacko space cadets wearing tim foil hats, to ancient looking, sounding, and feeling religions with advanced rigamortis who are always looking for Armageddon and Jesus to coming flying back to earth out of the East.
May we not give in or put too much stock in either Moore or Murphy, but, may we look within to the Spirit-Consciousness that knows and has all the answers we need. Meditation and contemplation whould be our increasingly fall back positions as we head to 2012. Did I mentioned it good for September 2008 also? 