A characteristic of these challenges is that their solution is time-critical, which turns them into societal threats. For instance, if the search for new antibiotics cannot keep pace with the development and spread of bacterial resistance or if the development of sustainable energy cycles cannot outpace global warming, severe consequences for our society will be unavoidable. Whereas we have seen in the past decades a remarkably accurate prediction of our computational capabilities by Moore's law, which describes their exponential growth with time, nothing similar has been found so far for scientific discovery. However, the time-critical threats to society in the 21st century require us to find viable solutions for pressing global problems at an increasingly faster pace than what was sufficient in the past. In a sense, as suggested by Benji Maruyama 15 a Moore's law for scientific discovery is required to increase the success for systematic as well as serendipitous discovery. However, tied to the current exponential growth of technology such an exponential pace of scientific discovery could be achieved!