Moore’s law is more about the exponential increase in the power of computing which accelerates by square with every linear unit of time. But it explains well how fast and how frequently events beyond human comprehension will leave the unprepared behind. Much late in our conscience did climate change mean anything to us. Yet it enabled a learning curve through incrementally intensifying weather phenomenon culminating in what Pakistan suddenly realised was the climactic exhibition of its ferocity and devastation when it finally came face to face with it. Could we have prepared better: surely. Could we have mitigated its destructive impact: quite a bit — had we started the actions in an earlier timeframe and recognised the threat it became. We did neither bear the full force of it with its destructive tale.
It will put Pakistan a decade if not two behind as it struggles to find a way out. But the mere knowledge, the conception and comprehension of the extent of the problem, and a little concerted effort to put in place measures to manage or mitigate its impact may have saved us lives, infrastructure and economic pain. We failed at it as a nation. Technology is the other beast that Gordon Moore, famous Tech-Giant Intel’s CEO, predicted almost prophetically in 1965 warning its uncontrolled growth and acceleration which has placed the world of the unprepared on the verge of unravelling the state and the society. Rather than prepare to handle, manage and optimise to mitigate its...
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