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As Ray Kurzweil, who was important to starting the "singlarity" uni/hub has tried to hammer home: understanding exponential growth is so important to any of the
by ompogUe 3y ago
As Ray Kurzweil, who was important to starting the "singlarity" uni/hub has tried to hammer home: understanding exponential growth is so important to any of these forecasts. Pick your starting time generation for a product (solar for example). The amount of growth in the next generation will be double that. It will then double in half the time, and so forth. We are in the curve of the hockey stick for a lot of these.
(FYI - I used to work at the Office of Strategic Foresight of the Canadian Nation Science Foundation. Their mandate was to see how Canada spends it's science dollars looking 5, 10, 20 years into the future.)