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If they occur at increasingly small intervals, they are probably also decreasingly important and far-reaching. Probably we see those that are closer to us more
by lkozma 19y ago
If they occur at increasingly small intervals, they are probably also decreasingly important and far-reaching. Probably we see those that are closer to us more important as they are.
- dfranke 19y agoI don't think that's the case. Due to exponential population growth, the majority of humans that have ever lived are still alive, so it would seem to be a natural hypothesis that most of the progress that has ever been made has been made in the past century.
- lkozma 19y agoAccording to most estimates the nr. of people who have ever lived is around 100 billion. People alive today are between 6 and 7 billion.
- pg 19y agoNo; you can see polynomial growth really clearly just in the case of stone tools.