When an exponential technology is at one percent; you are halfway to one hundred percent.
Ray Kurzweil
It's the law of accelerating returns. The measures of information technology -- price performance, bandwidth capacity -- are growing exponentially. Yet hardwired in our neocortex is this linear expectation.
If you understand the potential of these exponential technologies to transform everything from energy to education, you have a different perspective on how we can solve the grand challenges of humanity.
Kurzweil