Moore’s Law states the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double about every two years. This law, coined by Intel and Fairchild founder [Gordon Moore] has been a truism since it’s ...

Exponential growth refers to a process where a quantity increases at a consistent rate over time, relative to its current value. In simpler terms, imagine you have $100 that grows at a rate of 10% per ...

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Why in the world would anyone believe in all this Singularity nonsense? If you have your doubts about the exponential growth of technology continuing indefinitely, there's a guy you should talk to: ...

During his keynote at the Game Developers Conference 2008, ‘futurist’ and inventor Ray Kurzweil has recommended game developers prepare for technology to grow exponentially, not linearly. A large part ...

It has been, can you believe it, six years since Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee released Race Against the Machine. In this much discussed book, they predicted that we were arriving at the “back ...