Side note: comments at the bottom on singularity and moore's law are IMHO also highly interesting.<p>Direct link: <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/286739/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/286739/</a>
Dr. Lloyd is a physicist more than anything (even though his department at MIT is MechE), which may explain why he eschews the manufacturing approach to Moore's Law. The author should have mentioned this; Dr. Lloyd is brilliant but he isn't an EE or CS and can't reasonably be expected to base his theories on those disciplines.
Joe Armstrong gives a very good talk about ideas in the article in "The Mess We're In" (2014):<p><a href="https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=26m12s" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=26m12s</a>