Often see Moore's law as example of exponential progress. But computers are tools: what matters is utility and cost, not transistors per cm2
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The usefulness/cost of computing tech improves over time, but not nearly exponentially. If it did, our economy & well-being would be booming
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Instead it seems to be the same sort of slow linear improvement seen everywhere across science and technology
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No paradox if frontiers of science and tech are exponential problems (graphs, e.g.) where improvement is measured on log scale (avg. depth)
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If we were relying on transistor density to search the science-tech space, we couldn't be able to innovate fast enough for Moore's law.
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