{"id":1371,"date":"2005-05-16T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2005\/05\/law-of-accelerating-returns.html"},"modified":"2005-05-16T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T12:59:00","slug":"law-of-accelerating-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Accelerating Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Amazing article describing how it took billions of years for life to evolve and how the rate of change speeds up with time. Extrapolatingto the future he calculates (conservatively) that     *  We achieve one Human Brain capability  $1,000 around the year 2023.<br \/>\n<br \/>    * We achieve one Human Brain capability  for one cent around the year 2037.<br \/>\n<br \/>    * We achieve one Human Race capability for $1,000 around the year 2049.<br \/>\n<br \/>    * We achieve one Human Race capability  for one cent around the year 2059.<\/p>\n<p>Which just goes to show that NT could be nearly right in that we will be last generation to die.<\/p>\n<p>Also the article goes to show that we the only planet to have intelligent life. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/articles\/art0134.html?printable=1\">The Law of Accelerating Returns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article from http:\/\/jurvetson.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/accelerating-change-and-societal-shock.html<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing article describing how it took billions of years for life to evolve and how the rate of change speeds up with time. Extrapolatingto the future he calculates (conservatively) that * We achieve one Human Brain capability $1,000 around the year 2023. * We achieve one Human Brain capability for one cent around the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}