Generalizing Moore

Over the past few years, several independent teams of researchers have noticed something surprising in historical data on a broad set of technologies. Everyone, of course, knows about MooresLaw for decades, the densityof transistors on integrated circuits has doubled every two years, with computational speed advancing even faster. This spectacular record of improvement shows up in just about any metric. Much less known, however, is that this pattern of exponential advance isnt actually limited to electronics; it applies just as well to technologies ranging from cars or batteries to beer or nuclear power.