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 nanotechnology research (increasing exponentially)
- Number of U.S. nanotech patents (increasing exponentially)
Total Bits Shipped
http://www.kurzweilai.net/total-bits-shipped
http://www.kurzweilai.net/magnetic-data-storage
Exponential Growth
http://www.ideacouture.com/blog/the-only-constant-thing-in-life-is-change-embracing-the-petabyte-age-part-i/
Kurzweil observes that change is abound, and moving quickly in a particular direction. Vast and diverse occurrences of exponential growth transcend technological paradigms, perpetually driving us forward.
Growth, growth, growth. Now add a little more growth for good measure. Pun intended.
Our data pools are growing rapidly as well. I remember the excitement years ago when I upgraded my 386 laptop with 80 megabytes of disk space. Well, last night I caught myself cursing at my home computer for its pathetic 2.4 terabytes of space. (Note to self: buy more space.) Things have changed, clearly. We have oceans of digital assets at our fingertips and we constantly apply a myriad of operations upon them.
The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One (PDF)
Learning Technologies
Ray Kurzweil
http://dpcloud.co/users/learningtech/web/dpx/slidemedia/7118/LearningTech_Ray_Kurzweil.pdf