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A Handful "laws" govern most of digital technology development

Moore's Law: The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months, (or simplified: overall processing power for computers will double every two years)

Metcalfe’s Law: the effect of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system 

Wirth’s Law: software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Brooks’ Law: adding human resources to a late software project makes it later.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Martec’s Law: Technology changes exponentially, organizations change logarithmically

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one

Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." 

Zimmermann's Law: The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months

Nathan Myhrvold's Laws of Software:

1. Software is a gas - it expands to fit the container it is in

2. Software grows until it becomes limited by Moore’s Law

3. Software growth makes Moore’s Law possible

4. Software is only limited by human ambition and expectation