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5 years ago

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Tags: computers, maps, the future

9 Responses:

1. NT says:

   5 years ago at 2:34 pm

   Previously

2. Aaron says:

   5 years ago at 4:57 pm

   This illustrates well how phenomena that appear to be exponentials are really just sigmoids, or something else, and why there's no "singularity."

   • Jef Poskanzer says:

     5 years ago at 7:07 pm

     I mean everything returns to zero eventually, right?

   • japhomatic says:

     5 years ago at 11:49 am

     Agreed. Also, was looking at the overall timeline and thinking, "...the age of transistors in the 1950s, check; the oversold claims of AI, logic programming and lisp machines in the 70s/80s, check; Kurzweil begins writing books, check..."

3. Kyle Huff says:

   5 years ago at 5:24 pm

   Nominative determinism.

4. Jef Poskanzer says:

   5 years ago at 7:10 pm

   Also reminds me of: Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan

5. GM says:

   5 years ago at 3:05 am

   You forgot to tag this as 'autological'.

6. Stephen says:

   5 years ago at 3:32 am

   I thought that last image was going to be the Ngram of: .

   • Stephen says:

     5 years ago at 3:33 am

     Doh! Interest over time.