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by AnimalMuppet 1850 days ago
Silicon is pretty unique. Take crops, for example. There is no basis on which we could have a Moore's Law-like increase in soil productivity. We had the Green Revolution, but it was a one-off. There may be a second one waiting in the wings in the form of GMOs, but it's 50 years after the first one.

Why are crops so different from silicon? Because silicon was just a matter of doing the same thing at smaller and smaller scales. You can't improve plant yields by that kind of process.