Carlson Curves illustrate the fast decreases in price, and will increase in performance, of a wide range of technologies, including DNA sequencing, DNA synthesis, and a range of physical and computational instruments used in protein expression and in determining protein buildings. In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, previously of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise. Despite the features in computational efficiency during this time interval according to Moore’s law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the velocity on a prototypical 12 months …