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12-01-2011, 09:10 AM
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Yes thats true - social, financial and franky resource limitations are reasons to slow down "development". Which is why I dont think exponential growth in technology is not possible in all branches of it.
Especially with the law of diminishing returns in place. The only reason why technology grows fast and in some cases even exponentially is because at the same time exponentially more resources are put into it (human, natural, mineral, informational, computational). In computer technology it is a bit of a special case because in this case, at least one of the resources required (computational power) is generated by the process itself, which is why it can be exponentially growing. Processes usually only grow exponentially if they are having some feedback loop in which this happens - in which the output feeds into the growth again. Other technologies that do not have this characteristic are dragged along by computer technologies growth. Still the other resources are not growing in the same way, minearl, human and natural resources as well as energy is not able to keep up with the increasing demand of this exponentially growing technology on such a wide and large scale.
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