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I hate coming up with something that already exists... I just thought "excrementally" instead of "exponentially" and was going to announce it as a new term meaning "becoming exponentially crappy"
but I googled it first and found out that it's already been done.
Speaking of exponential, right now I'm freaking out--as I occasionally do--over a somewhat insignificant thought. I'm editing history videos about the 20th century, and thinking about the rapid industrialization at the turn of the 20th century. We went from riding around in horse drawn carts and dying of whooping cough to sending people to space and harnessing atomic power in less than a century. Contrast that with other periods of history where man didn't do much other than a lot of hunting, gathering and butt scratching. Why did such technological leaps happen when they did? Why now? What triggered it? Or, has there been such rapid progression in one way or another all throughout human history that's simply been lost to time?
It seems that periods of war and conflict always seem to yield some larger product, but is that just a human need to justify our own atrocious natures?
but I googled it first and found out that it's already been done.
Speaking of exponential, right now I'm freaking out--as I occasionally do--over a somewhat insignificant thought. I'm editing history videos about the 20th century, and thinking about the rapid industrialization at the turn of the 20th century. We went from riding around in horse drawn carts and dying of whooping cough to sending people to space and harnessing atomic power in less than a century. Contrast that with other periods of history where man didn't do much other than a lot of hunting, gathering and butt scratching. Why did such technological leaps happen when they did? Why now? What triggered it? Or, has there been such rapid progression in one way or another all throughout human history that's simply been lost to time?
It seems that periods of war and conflict always seem to yield some larger product, but is that just a human need to justify our own atrocious natures?