Robots Will Steal Your Job

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK is an audiobook that explores the impact of technological advances on our lives, what it means to be happy, and provides suggestions on how to avoid a systemic collapse. Written by Federico Pistono and read by Ian R Buck.

Information Technology

Episode #4

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Now that we understand the nature of exponential growth, we can look at how it applies to the advancement of information technology.

Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
08:50 | Outro

Figures

Figure 1.1: The difference between a Linear and an Exponential curve.
Figure 1.1: The difference between a Linear and an Exponential curve. Courtesy of Ray Kurzweil.
Figure 1.2: The Exponential Growth of computing power over the last 110 years.
Figure 1.2: The Exponential Growth of computing power over the last 110 years. Courtesy of Ray Kurzweil.

References

  1. Cramming more components onto integrated circuits, Gordon E. Moore, 1965. Electronics Magazine. p. 4.
    http://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf
  2. The Law of Accelerating Returns March 7, Ray Kurzweil, 2001.
    http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

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The Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Audiobook is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to http://thenexus.tv/rsj4, you do not use it for commercial purposes, and you release any derivative works under the same license.

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