Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence

Exponentially growing technologies Dynamic RAM size (smallest feature sizes decreasing exponentially) Dynamic RAM price performance (improving exponentially) Average Transistor price (decreasing exponentially) Transistor Manufacturing costs (decreasing exponentially) Microprocessor clock speeds (increasing exponentially) Microprocessor costs (decreasing exponentially) Transistors per microprocessor (increasing exponentially) Processor performance (increasing exponentially) DNA sequencing costs per base pair (decreasing exponentially) Random Access Memory bits per dollar (increasing exponentially) Magnetic data storage bits per dollar (increasing exponentially) Wireless Internet and phone services price performance (increasing exponentially) Number of Internet hosts (increasing exponentially) Bytes of Internet traffic (increasing exponentially) Internet backbone bandwidth (increasing in a very terraced, quasi-exponential manner) Mechanical device sizes (decreasing exponentially) Number of scientific citations for … Continue reading Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence