Kevin Kelly in a great book, What Technology Wants, gives fantastic illustrations of the power of the exponential in a number of areas related to the Fourth Revolution (read our post Why the Fourth Revolution is the Era of the Exponential, and How this Changes Everything).
I can’t resist sharing more exponential curves with you in a variety of technological areas:
“The same kind of steady exponential progress that drives computer chips also drives three information industries, and the keenest observers of these trajectories— the very founders of their respective “laws”— all believe that these trajectories of improvement are independent lines of acceleration and are not derivative of the overarching progress of computer chips.”
Amazing, isn’t it? The exponential really determines technology today.
This post is a second part to a first post.
