| From the Desk of Don Yocham: Moore's Law sped us through the Information Age.
From solid-state relays in the 40s, through vacuum tubes to transistors and integrated circuits, computing speed has doubled every two years.
It took a computer the size of a large building to put us on the moon. But, with a little know how, we can easily do the same math on the smartphone in your pocket today.
Like every other technology, that processing speed can be put to either good or bad use.
It speeds your stock trades to the exchange. It connects us instantaneously to others around the globe. It lets us solve hard problems in chemistry, biology, and logistics.
But this hyper-capacity for calculation also makes it possible for a bad breed of hackers to steal data vital to your financial well-being – or lock us out entirely from the systems upon which we constantly rely.
The continuation of Moore's Law means more connections, more data, and more functionality. It also increases our vulnerability to cyber-attack exponentially.
The next computational leap will be a quantum leap. A leap so vast that the encryption systems guarding your identity, livelihood, and even wealth could be rendered obsolete overnight.
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