Moore's law

''Library expansion'' – was calculated in 1945 by [[Fremont Rider]] to double in capacity every 16 years, if sufficient space were made available.{{cite book |last=Rider |first=Fremont |title=The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library |publisher=Hadham Press |year=1944 |oclc=578215272 }}{{page needed|date=February 2026}} He advocated replacing bulky, decaying printed works with miniaturized [[microform]] analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons or other institutions. He did not foresee the digital technology that would follow decades later to replace analog microform with digital imaging, storage, and transmission media. Automated, potentially lossless digital technologies allowed vast increases in the rapidity of information growth in an era that now sometimes is called the [[Information Age]].{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

''Library expansion'' – was calculated in 1945 by [[Fremont Rider]] to double in capacity every 16 years, if sufficient space were made available.{{cite book |last=Rider |first=Fremont |title=The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library |publisher=Hadham Press |year=1944 |oclc=578215272 }}{{page needed|date=February 2026}} He advocated replacing bulky, decaying printed works with miniaturized [[microform]] analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons or other institutions. He did not foresee the digital technology that would follow decades later to replace analog microform with digital imaging, storage, and transmission media. Automated, potentially lossless digital technologies allowed vast increases in the rapidity of information growth in an era that now sometimes is called the [[Information Age]].{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

''[[Carlson curve]]'' – is a term coined by ''The Economist''{{cite news |title=Life 2.0 |url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/08/31/life-20 |newspaper=The Economist |date=31 August 2006 |url-access=subscription }} to describe the biotechnological equivalent of Moore's law, and is named after author Rob Carlson.{{cite book | last = Carlson | first = Robert H. | title = Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life | publisher = Harvard University Press | date = 2010 |isbn=978-0-674-05362-5 }}{{page needed|date=February 2026}} Carlson accurately predicted that the doubling time of DNA sequencing technologies (measured by cost and performance) would be at least as fast as Moore's law.{{cite journal |last=Carlson |first=Robert H. |date=September 2003 |title=The Pace and Proliferation of Biological Technologies |journal=Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=203–214 |doi=10.1089/153871303769201851 |pmid=15040198 }} Carlson Curves illustrate the rapid (in some cases hyperexponential) decreases in cost, and increases in performance, of a variety of technologies, including DNA sequencing, DNA synthesis, and a range of physical and computational tools used in protein expression and in determining protein structures.{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

''[[Carlson curve]]'' – is a term coined by ''The Economist''{{cite news |title=Life 2.0 |url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/08/31/life-20 |newspaper=The Economist |date=31 August 2006 |url-access=subscription }} to describe the biotechnological equivalent of Moore's law, and is named after author Rob Carlson.{{cite book | last = Carlson | first = Robert H. | title = Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life | publisher = Harvard University Press | date = 2010 |isbn=978-0-674-05362-5 }}{{page needed|date=February 2026}} Carlson accurately predicted that the doubling time of DNA sequencing technologies (measured by cost and performance) would be at least as fast as Moore's law.{{cite journal |last=Carlson |first=Robert H. |date=September 2003 |title=The Pace and Proliferation of Biological Technologies |journal=Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=203–214 |doi=10.1089/153871303769201851 |pmid=15040198 }} Carlson Curves illustrate the rapid (in some cases hyperexponential) decreases in cost, and increases in performance, of a variety of technologies, including DNA sequencing, DNA synthesis, and a range of physical and computational tools used in protein expression and in determining protein structures.{{Cite journal |last=Carlson |first=Robert |date=2009 |title=The changing economics of DNA synthesis |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt1209-1091 |journal=Nature Biotechnology |language=en |volume=27 |issue=12 |pages=1091–1094 |doi=10.1038/nbt1209-1091 |issn=1546-1696}}

''[[Eroom's law]]'' – is a pharmaceutical drug development observation that was deliberately written as Moore's Law spelled backward in order to contrast it with the exponential advancements of other forms of technology (such as transistors) over time. It states that the cost of developing a new drug roughly doubles every nine years.{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

''[[Eroom's law]]'' – is a pharmaceutical drug development observation that was deliberately written as Moore's Law spelled backward in order to contrast it with the exponential advancements of other forms of technology (such as transistors) over time. It states that the cost of developing a new drug roughly doubles every nine years.{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}