<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">ps udoname</b> <<a href="mailto:ps.udoname@gmail.com">ps.udoname@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I was just thinking that I see a lot of people who say things like "the singularity WILL be exponential" and seem to think that the whole of human progress can be described as p=e^kt.</div>
<div>This seems a little simplistic to say the least. I was going to say that I could come up with a better model, but I'm sure someone must have already done that somewhere.... </div></blockquote><div><br>Ray Kurzweil discusses it extensively in Chapter 2 of
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Singularity is Near</span> titled "A Theory of Technological Evolution" which goes on for 75 pages with lots of graphs (and a discussion of S-curves).<br></div><br></div><br>