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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (434667)	7/28/2003 10:54:13 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It's all in the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology. It's all about the implications of economy evolution based upon gross ignorance of so so so many. The Intuitive Linear View versus the Historical Exponential View The future is widely misunderstood. Our forebears expected the future to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past. Although exponential trends did exist a thousand years ago, they were at that very early stage where an exponential trend is so flat and so slow that it looks like no trend at all. So their lack of expectations was largely fulfilled. Today, in accordance with the common wisdom, everyone expects continuous technological progress and the social repercussions that follow. But the future will nonetheless be far more surprising than most observers realize because few have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating. ................. The Law of Accelerating Returns The ongoing acceleration of technology is the implication and inevitable result of what I call the "law of accelerating returns," which describes the acceleration of the pace and the exponential growth of the products of an evolutionary process. This includes technology, particularly information-bearing technologies, such as computation. More specifically, the law of accelerating returns states the following: ................................. kurzweilai.net Further demonstrating the genius of PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH. Can anyone make the connections showing why the education plan and a drug plan are so brilliant.