PNNL

Abstract

The eventual breakdown of Moore’s law, global warming and taxes seem to elicit much the same response: “painful but inevitable”. Future technologies promise solutions to keep life and progress as we know it continuing unchanged. New materials, manufacturing processes, more cores per chip, nanotechnology, quantum computing, optical computing all are lauded with promising new breakthroughs to sustain or exceed the performance increases projected by Moore’s Law. Similarly, carbon sequestration, more efficient cars, hydrogen, solar power, all promise solutions to human induced climate change. Sadly tax technology appears to be the exception, with no promising breakthroughs in the offing except perhaps greater efficiency in filing and auditing.