You're describing Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns. If you subscribe to it, you'll note that innovation is exponential, such that we were innovating fast

You're describing Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns. If you subscribe to it, you'll note that innovation is exponential, such that we were innovating faster in 1900 than we were in 1800 by a greater factor than 1800 to 1700. http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns