Good stuff. Here are three relevant tidbits that serve to illustrate an expanded view of the point.
In "The Logic of Failure", the point was made that humans are horrible at recognizing that an exponential process is in play.
There is a saw to the effect (I'm paraphrasing) of "Human's grossly overestimate what will happen in 5 years but grossly underestimate what will happen in 10." This pretty much is a result of No. 1.
I believe Thomas Jefferson (an outsider in the context of this post) was said to predict that it would take &quo
Good stuff. Here are three relevant tidbits that serve to illustrate an expanded view of the point.
... (read more)In "The Logic of Failure", the point was made that humans are horrible at recognizing that an exponential process is in play.
There is a saw to the effect (I'm paraphrasing) of "Human's grossly overestimate what will happen in 5 years but grossly underestimate what will happen in 10." This pretty much is a result of No. 1.
I believe Thomas Jefferson (an outsider in the context of this post) was said to predict that it would take &quo