In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits would double every other year for the foreseeable future.
I heard an interview with Moore where he flatly denied this, and said that what became Moore's Law was an internal estimate that this would occur for the next $X years... it wasn't intended to be for forever, and he was surprised at how long it lasted.
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