Last year, scientists using a technique called helioseismology, probed the Sun's interior, revealing that currents of gas at the base of the convective zone change velocity every 16 months.

BBC: Sun, Trace

Just like recognizing how new equilibriums can alter the dynamics of an environment, government policies can significantly change the velocity of money.

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Not because of change itself, but rather the almost exponential increase in the velocity of change.

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The energy source propelling the increased velocity of marketplace change is innovations, but these are merely new tools.

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Entities like ARPA-E and Ultra Light Start-Ups serve to increase the velocity of that change, by exposing good ideas to financial backing and experienced management.

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But the velocity of the change now is different that what has come before, and I do think we may be on the cusp of something big.

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After midnight, we will be looking back for real at a long year of Internet froth, a decade of increasing velocity, a century of turmoil (trapped by triumph) and a thousand years where change has been so vast, so profound, that we can scarcely comprehend life Way Back Then.

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