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单词 Eroom's law
释义

Eroom's law

English

Etymology

Moore's law spelled backwards, coined in a 2012 paper.[1]

Proper noun

Eroom's law

  1. (pharmacology) The observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.
    • 2014, Jeremy A. Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, JHU Press (→ISBN), page 271:
      Eroom's Law, in turn, observes that in the pharmaceutical sector the decline in innovation is itself constant: the yield of FDA-approved drugs per billion dollars spent has halved every nine years between 1950 and 2010.
    • 2018, Mark Stevenson, We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World, Abrams (→ISBN), unnumbered page:
      With a touch of wry humour, the authors dubbed this phenomenon Eroom's law, the reverse spelling of Moore's Law – the famous law of computing that expresses the doubling of processing power per dollar every two years []

Further reading

  • Eroom's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  1. Jack W. Scannell; Alex Blanckley; Helen Boldon; Brian Warrington (2012), “Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency”, in Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery, volume 11, issue 3, DOI:10.1038/nrd3681, PMID 22378269, pages 191–200

Anagrams

  • Moore's law
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