Kurzweil argues that technological progress is not linear, but exponential. While we perceive time passing at a steady rate, the power of our tools—specifically computational power—doubles at increasingly shorter intervals. This leads to a point where change becomes so rapid that it creates a rupture in human history. The doubling of transistors on a chip.
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