Please compute for me when we'll reach the peak of the exponential growth, and move to the "top of the s-curve". I realize it will happen at some point. I don't pretend to know when.
Do you really think it will occur within 10 years, which is what the author uses for his extrapolation in the article, and which would justify the parent commenter implying the back-of-the-envelope calculation is wrong (with a snide comment)?
"I realize it will happen at some point. I don't pretend to know when."
Partial knowledge is possible. We can be quite comfortable ruling out "thousands" of years. It would require a total, utter rewrite of physics. While this can never be 100% ruled out, I do tend to think that when that's your last defense, you've gone too far. If people a thousand years from now look back and laugh at me for thinking that it's impossible to store multiple petabytes on a single hydrogen atom, I hope they'll at least have the courtesy to admit it was by far the most likely hypothesis given the quite substantial amount we know about particle physics right now.
Do you really think it will occur within 10 years, which is what the author uses for his extrapolation in the article, and which would justify the parent commenter implying the back-of-the-envelope calculation is wrong (with a snide comment)?