Scott Schmucker wrote:
The point, of course, is that Moore's Law serves to indicate an exponential growth rate over whatever time frame you choose to apply it. Regardless of where it starts, it gives a pretty good idea of this. Do I think that it is particularly applicable to Project Gutenberg production? No, not really. But it is a term that the public is familiar with, and thus Michael finds that it is a useful term to use in advertising just how much work PG has been doing over the past decade (and a half). Can we really think in terms of "keeping up with Moore's Law?" Probably not, it doesn't make much sense, though the semiconductor industry does it every day, and going back to the very beginning, they are much farther away from Moore's Law than we are.
In the few times I tried to apply Moore's Law to something other than CPU advancement, I've used the phrase "Moore's Law-like." However, I think we should use the term "exponential" or "geometric" (whatever best applies) to describe the growth rate of PG texts. Jon