The Law of Accelerating Returns

By R. Kurzweil. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6021a8729e2151eb28ea4d56144ef0977336afb3

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1. C. Davidson
2. Glenn Lyons

Citations in the corpus

• Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future (2016, background): “Kurzweil (2001) has described this as the Law of Accelerating Returns in which positive feedback enables the next stage of evolution to capitalise on that of the past.”
• 3D Virtual worlds and the metaverse: Current status and future possibilities (2013, background): “Second, it is important to acknowledge the likelihood that rapid changes in computing (as popularized by Moore’s law and Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns [Moore 1965; Kurzweil 2001]) will impact the currency of some aspects of this survey.”