A New Economic Era in Computer Science: DNA Vs Quantum Computing

The increasing rate of growth both of science and technology in our era, renders the forecasts for the development course of each technology, very significant for the strategic development designer of any organism, either this concerns an enterprise or a state or a union of states. Such a technology is the computer technology, which is currently to the limit of its current possibilities and is being prepared to pass into a new era and create a new economic environment. The silicon technology, because of its constructional restrictions, cannot maintain the existing growth rate for more than one decade. “Spintronics” or “molecular electronics” can constitute transient technologies, but the radical change will be the transition from serial to parallel calculating process.

Aim of this work is to constitute a useful tool for the forecast of development of the subversive technologies that will bring us to a new era of computer science. DNA computing and Quantum computing are considered as such technologies. The use of such a forecast may result in dramatic changes in the economic map of the companies engaged in information technology, since it will allow an early placement of them in upcoming competitive race.