&gt;sadly we will not see the growth rates we saw<p>Maybe although if you look at Kurzweil&#x27;s graph, and he may be cranky but I think his data is fairly ok, things have been speeding up in terms of computing &#x2F; per dollar. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JIw8CQB8prg&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=6m30s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JIw8CQB8prg&amp;feature=youtu.be...</a><p>I don&#x27;t see much reason why that can&#x27;t continue. Some things like clock frequency hit limits but a Raspberry Pi equivalent was roughly $25 a couple of years back, $5 now and could be $0.0005 in the future.