[chrisatumd]

The idea that exponential growth has been happening long before Moore's law is one of the main themes of Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

[tim333]

Here's one of his graphs from 1900 to 1995 starting with census counting technology in 1900. If you allow GPUs as info tech then we are about in line with his most optimistic projection.

graph http://globedia.com/imagenes/noticias/2011/10/17/singularida...

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