For the most time of human history, life was local and linear. Local in the way that anything that happened was close by, a least within a walking distance. Linear in the way that your life was the same as your parents and your children. Nothing changed.
Just like the evolution of man, technology improvements follow an evolutionary progress. New ideas or products are to begin with immature and fragile with slow improvements. Then the progress accelerates until the products become mature and taken for granted. Then the cycle repeats and a new layer of technology is added to the previous. This process is exponential. One such observation of exponential is Moore’s Law.
We will explore what exponential means. We look at Moore´s law and The Law of the Accelerating returns.
11. CENTURY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Radio
Messages
Airplanes
Ice lolly
Ford
model T
Talking
pictures
Zipper
Stainless
steel
Tanks
Penicillin
FM Radio
Computers
Nuclear
fission
Ballistic
missile
Transistor
Atom
bomb
Solar
battery
PC
Integrated
circuit
Video
game
consoles
GUIs
TV
ARPANET
Laser
Altair
CD-ROM
Mosaic
DVD
WWW
Internet
VCR
Digital
cameras
Satellites
Mircochip
12. “He was the pre-eminent scientist in a
century dominated by science. The
touchstones of the era — the Bomb, the
Big Bang, quantum physics and
electronics — all bear his imprint.”
13. special theory of relativity
model of the atom
discovery of the electron
theory of continental drift
nuclear chain reaction
discovery of the positron, neutron
big bang theory
quantum theory
uncertainty principle
21. Exponential trends
can be composed of
a sequence of S-
curves where each
curve is faster
The S-curve
22. Exponential trends
can be composed of
a sequence of S-
curves where each
curve is faster
The S-curve
23. Technology Life Cycle
Describes the
commercial gain of a
product through the
expense of research
and development
phase, and the
financial return during
its "vital life"
24. In the early days
The innovators and technology
enthusiasts drive the market
They demand technology
Small percentage of the market
In the later days
The pragmatists and conservatives
dominate; they want solutions and
convenience
The big market
Technology Life Cycle
37. 1977
Apple II $1,298
4000 bytes memory
Motorola 6502 1MHz
2007
iMac 17-inch $1,199
1GB memory
Intel 2.0GHz
30 years of product improvements
38. iPad 2 as fast as Cray 2
supercomputer, fraction of the size
Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/10/ipad.2.benches.as.fast.as.cray.2.from.1985/#ixzz1jdOS0Es4
Cray 2 1985 Apple iPad 2 2011
30 years of product improvements
39. Slow growth in the beginning
than accelerates
Exponential Growth
40.
41. IF PRODUCT PERFORMANCE DOUBLES EVERY YEAR
IN 10 YEARS WE HAVE 1,000 FOLD
INCREASE IN PERFOMANCE
IN 30 YEARS WE HAVE 1,000,000,000 FOLD
INCREASE IN PERFOMANCE
45. The total amount of rice required to fill a 64-
squared chess board is (2^ (64) - 1), which
is equal to 18446744073709551615 grains
460 billion tons
46. Number of transistors on
an integrated circuit will double
in about 18-24 months
Moore’s Law
67. The Law of Accelerating Returns
Evolution applies positive feedback in that the more
capable methods resulting from one stage of
evolutionary progress are used to create the next
stage.
As a result, the rate of progress of an evolutionary
process increases exponentially over time.
68. “An analysis of the history of technology
shows that technological change is
exponential, contrary to the common-
sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won't
experience 100 years of progress in the
21st century -- it will be more like 20,000
years of progress
(at today's rate).”
- Ray Kurzweil
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74. Working in an exponential industry with a
liner view is deadly
Disruption