Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law is testament to the tremendous increase in processing power and the consequent changes in business and society we have seen over the last 47 (and counting) years. While Moore predicted the continuation of this trend “for at least 10 years,” current estimates are that this rate of progress will continue to at least 2020. Until, of course, we have the first operational quantum computers, but that’s another story.