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Progress and Predictions
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    • Characteristics of Exponential Functions
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    • Looking at It Backwards
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    • Why Did Some Attempts At Innovation Fail?
    • Moore's Law
    • Law of Accelerating Returns
    • Quantum Computing
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  1. Introduction

Moore's Law

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![Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/gordon moore.png)

In 1965 Gordon Moore posited a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit, and projected this rate of growth would continue for at least another decade.

Moore's Law is exponential

Ray Kurzweil extended it by looking back historically

and predicted it will continue, going forward

Kurzweil also extended Moore's Law in scope: it's not just about computers but abut every technology that becomes "information enabled".

Some Charts of Technological Change

Kurzweil's predictions were made decades ago so by now he has an excellent .

extending Moorle's Law in time and scope

track record
πŸ”— Computational capacity of the fastest supercomputers
πŸ”— Computation used to train notable artificial intelligence systems
πŸ”— Historical cost of computer memory and storage
πŸ”— https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/transistors-per-microprocessor