Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Exciting Technologies

You will be part of an exciting future, because technology works on an exponential curve. That math-y word might sound intimidating, but 'exponential' just means that instead of steadily increasing (called linear, because it's graph is a line), the amount that it increases increases - that's not a typo :)

The linear could even start a lot higher than the exponential and it would still be passed quickly
The idea of exponential technology is best displayed by Moore's Law, which is not a law at all but rather a guess, in 1965, that computer processing ability would double every 2 years for the foreseeable future. And Moore was right: roughly every 2 years since then, the capabilities of computers has doubled. iPhone 3's have more processing power than ALL OF NASA had when they put a man on the moon.

Here's some of the great technology that's come out just this year that will have a profound impact on our future: (the picture is very big, you can zoom out in the "View" toolbar at the top of your screen)


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