# Sufficient advances in one discipline can enable advances in another discipline Technological progress tends to “stay in its own lane” — that is, rapid improvements within a single discipline rarely affect the rates of improvement in other areas. For example, improvements in electronics and software don’t immediately lead to advances in biology (and vice versa). However, this is only true to a certain extent. With *sufficient* advances in electronics and software, computational chemistry starts to become a possibility. When advances in materials science cross a certain threshold, exotic optics become a possibility (which can lead to further leaps in electronics, communications, cell biology, etc.). [[Oren Hazi Email 13/1/20]]