Blaise's Premise - A Moore's Law for Software

Iraneus writes: "Alan Kay has been poking hard on the software biz (with just cause) about all sorts of stuff, including the lack of scalability in many apps. Recently he's been raising a basic question — why isn't there a Moore's Law for software. This two part post (the link is to part 2) analyzes what that would mean, what might make sense, and proposes something — Blaise's Premise. I may not know much, but I do know that our industry can do a *lot* better than we generally do when it comes to scaling stuff we build."