Whenever I go to a YC alumni meetup, one of the things that stands out is how many companies seem to be going nowhere for years, and then take off in years 4-6.
Jared Friedmanx.comgrowth eventually will stop. Efforts to extend the growth by removing limits can actually be counterproductive, forestalling the eventual day of reckoning, which given the pace of change that reinforcing processes can create (remember the French lily pads) may be sooner than we think.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
If we view the exponential growth of computation in its proper perspective as one example of the pervasiveness of the exponential growth of information based technology, that is, as one example of many of the law of accelerating returns, then we can confidently predict its continuation. In the accompanying sidebar, I include a simplified mathematic... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Moore’s Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which basically means memory size and processing speed—will double every eighteen months, and costs will halve.