Moore's Law to an end, now what?
In '65, Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, made a prediction. Computer chips double every two years in terms of number of transistors. This prediction has been valid of the past 50 years. Unfortunately is has come to an end. The lines on the chips are now only a few nanometers wide, cannot be smaller. In a few nanometers in width, there are still only 5 to 10 atoms adjacent to each other. Even narrower lines and all kinds of "quantum mechanical" effects are manifest. So computer chips will not become faster / smaller / cheaper as we were used to. What should we do to satisfy our hunger for more affordable technology? We need to be smarter! Does my boiler indeed requires 7 * 24 hours connection to the Internet for only about 10 switches a day? Should all APPs on my phone indeed constantely measure my exact position and my heart rate etc? Probably not. But whether it is necessary has never been considered when designing. There was sufficient computing power anyhow. So what do we do now? Consider under what conditions we need anything. In requirements management is already taken into account; the word "when" in defining a user story. Today, you'll have many user stories without "when". So from now use the "when" so our computers do not get stuck in the future...