Monday, August 14, 2006

Kurzweil's Law (aka the law of accelerating returns) and the TB wiki

Kurzweil's Law (aka the law of accelerating returns):

"The resources underlying the exponential growth of an evolutionary process are relatively unbounded.

One resource is the (ever-growing) order of the evolutionary process itself. Each stage of evolution provides more powerful tools for the next.

In biological evolution, the advent of DNA allowed more powerful and faster evolutionary 'experiments.' Later, setting the 'designs' of animal body plans during the Cambrian explosion allowed rapid evolutionary development of other body organs, such as the brain.

Or to take a more recent example, the advent of computer-assisted design tools allows rapid development of the next generation of computers.

The other required resource is the 'chaos' of the environment in which the evolutionary process takes place and which provides the options for further diversity. In biological evolution, diversity enters the process in the form of mutations and ever- changing environmental conditions. In technological evolution, human ingenuity combined with ever-changing market conditions keep the process of innovation going. "

I believe this also fits as an analogy for this Truthbus wiki. Once this soccer ball folds up, it becomes a platform for accelerated learning, understanding and knowledge. The 'chaos' of this environment is the magazines, blogs, websites, meetings, books, etc.

the other Truthbus

1 comment:

robert said...

yep. if you build it ...