This Friday I had the internal speech within Volvo. I talked about Internet development and we are just in the middle of an exponential progress of the Internet.
I claimed that we (humanity) are not equipped wit a natural way of understanding the exponential function. We can calculate but not easily imaging the results or consequences of exponential growth.
After the speech I got the tips, from one of the guys in the audience, about Professor Albert A. Bartlett.
His claim 10 years ago was that the biggest threat against humanity is our inability to understand exponential growth.
I must admit that I never heard of him but sounded interesting!
Here is a speech he had 10 years ago. Very interesting, clear, informative and also a bit scaring.
Just start with the first one and I am sure you can’t stop watching:
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