I'm sure you're familiar with Kurzweil and his love of fitting lines on logarithmic plots. http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 http://ww

I'm sure you're familiar with Kurzweil and his love of fitting lines on logarithmic plots. http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/Blog_Kurzweil.gif http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/Blog_Kurzweil.gif He has an interesting plot where he takes a number of opinions about the most important events ever (e.g. fire, farming, etc.), and plots them all on a logarithmic time plot. The line fit to the 20 or so opinions is very apparent.