I bet that whole light coming from little threads in your walls that kill you if you touch them was quite a doozy too. Commercial airflight. Fertilizer. The ide

I bet that whole light coming from little threads in your walls that kill you if you touch them was quite a doozy too. Commercial airflight. Fertilizer. The idea of foreign pathogens causing diseases. Which is not to say that internet technology isn't widely more crazy than all of those previous or that there won't continue to be wider and crazier things to come. It is to say that we're not escaping exponential growth and there still isn't anything like a spike in that sort of curve. The singularity theory proposes an increase from exponential: some technology that speeds new technology's ability to speed new technology. Without the feedback --- without the efficient feedback --- everything "stays exponential". Which is only really depressing if you're looking for hypersmart AI and endless free human life in the next 20 orso.