Not because of change itself, but rather the almost exponential increase in the velocity of change.
This exponential increase would not, sadly, double everyone's wealth every two years.
While no one can predict how disruptive this exponential increase in connectivity will be, we can expect to live in a profoundly different world.
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By the numbers, an exponential increase in performance and battery life.
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That does not represent an exponential increase in shareholder rebellions.
But I am starting to wonder if Facebook marketing, super-charged by an exponential increase in sharing, will eventually drive a decline in user experience so drastic it threatens the platform itself.
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If these needed protein sources were to come primarily from livestock there is the very real potential for catastrophic pollution of water and land, not to mention the exponential increase in carbon emissions.
The addition of a logarithmic response to an exponential increase in the cause of something can in fact add up to a straight line, which is very obvious in a suite of the temperature projections made by our friends at the U.N.
It comes as no surprise that commodity prices are highly volatile, but researchers at FuelQuest have shown the exponential increase in wild price swings started in 2004, when electronic trading proliferated and hedge funds and other market players jumped in the market looking for bigger returns in a world of low interest rates.
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So initially, your increase in ancestors will indeed be almost exponential.
What we're seeing now -- Anthem Blue Cross and others -- is something on an exponential magnitude of what we had seen in the past, even in that increase.
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