
The man who knows more about doubling rates than anyone else in the world
(he accurately predicted computers winning at chess and the Internet,
including the correct dates),
Ray Kurzweil, interviewed by Lauren Feeney on PBS:
One of my primary theses is that information technologies grow
exponentially in capability and power and bandwidth and so on. If you
buy an iPhone today, it’s twice as good as two years ago for half that
cost. That is happening with solar energy — it is doubling every two
years. And it didn’t start two years ago, it started 20 years ago. Every
two years we have twice as much solar energy in the world.
Think about how fast the Internet has grown in the 21st century.
That’s what he’s talking about: from unknown to TV news anchors
to facilitating multiple revolutions in weeks. He continues:
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