Technology ExplosionTechnology Explosion is a simple name for a familiar phenomenon: technological evolution is exploding.Technology is exploding in the same way that the atomic nucleii in a nuclear bomb explode: by exhibiting an unconstrained exponential growth process. The Technology Explosion is named after I. J. Good's Intelligence Explosion. Good noted that at some point, the intelligence of organisms would explode. The Intelligence Explosion is happening now, as part of the bigger Technology Explosion. The Technology Explosion is part of evolution. Its origin took place at the origin of life. For billions of years it produced natural technologies - better known as adaptations - such as photosynthesis, cellulose, DNA - and so on. These then synergetically combined with one another. This catalysed the formation of new natural technologies producing ever more rapid evolutionary progress. The acceleration of technological evolution has reached a rapid pace in modern times - but it appears from our knowledge of physical law and the state of the universe locally, that the Technology Explosion has only just started, and that the vast majority of the explosion lies in the future.
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