[z8rHZM8Svhu8hE2]

In this context, the old lecture on the exponential function of energy consumption comes to mind.

Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY

[titzer]

You'll have to duck out quick before the posse arrives. HN abhors any references to exponential growth being unsustainable.

[fallingfrog]

But I was told that the singularity was coming, whereupon I could upload my consciousness to the cloud and experience an eternal orgasm of exponentially increasing bliss, thereby nullifying all laws of physical constraints. Did that get cancelled?

[titzer]

Just delayed. It's just right around the corner!