They say we can't grow our way out of our massive national debt here
in America, but there's a chance that riding an exponential economic
wave (with the right kind of surf board) could do it.

Moore's law: semiconduct price halve and capacity doubles in 18
months.

Adrian Bowyer's vision: getting one RepRap machine to make its own
parts will clear the way for "a chicken in every pot", given enough
cycles of doubling time.

These are not the only two technologies exhibiting or subject to
exponential growth, and for certain, not every technology is subject
to such growth.

Just a thought I had....I see fewer and fewer posts about metalworking
here in rec.crafts.metalworing, and more and more debate on political
concerns. Why not combine the two, and let the best idea win?

Doug Goncz
Replikon Research
Seven Corners, VA 22044-0394

wrote:

Just a thought I had....I see fewer and fewer posts about
metalworking here in rec.crafts.metalworing, and more and more
debate on political concerns.

Which should be labeled "off-topic" or "OT".

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:59:06 -0700, DGoncz wrote:

They say we can't grow our way out of our massive national debt here in
America, but there's a chance that riding an exponential economic wave
(with the right kind of surf board) could do it.
[...]
Just a thought I had....I see fewer and fewer posts about metalworking
here in rec.crafts.metalworing, and more and more debate on political
concerns. Why not combine the two, and let the best idea win?

With that newsgroup name misspelled, people may be unsure if you're
talking about rec.crafts.metalwhoring or rec.crafts.metalworking.
Combination with political concerns would be more natural in the
former.

--
jiw

Whenever I see someone writing/talking about "exponential growth" or
"exponential" something, I have to wonder what they are using for the
exponent? Zero is a valid exponent. So is -2. So is 1000. So what
exponent are you referring to?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Paul


On Oct 15, 2:59*am, wrote:
They say we can't grow our way out of our massive national debt here
in America, but there's a chance that riding an exponential economic
wave (with the right kind of surf board) could do it.

Moore's law: semiconduct price halve and capacity doubles in 18
months.

Adrian Bowyer's vision: getting one RepRap machine to make its own
parts will clear the way for "a chicken in every pot", given enough
cycles of doubling time.

These are not the only two technologies exhibiting or subject to
exponential growth, and for certain, not every technology is subject
to such growth.

Just a thought I had....I see fewer and fewer posts about metalworking
here in rec.crafts.metalworing, and more and more debate on political
concerns. Why not combine the two, and let the best idea win?

Doug Goncz
Replikon Research
Seven Corners, VA 22044-0394

wrote:
They say we can't grow our way out of our massive national debt here
in America, but there's a chance that riding an exponential economic
wave (with the right kind of surf board) could do it.

This exponential rise requires a rapidly rising population of workers, I
think. We don't have that anymore!
Moore's law: semiconduct price halve and capacity doubles in 18
months.

Moore's law is dead, long live Gordon Moore. Check out the speed of
Intel processors over time. Almost no change in top speed in 4 years.
They are going for wide (multi-core) instead of any further speed increases.
Adrian Bowyer's vision: getting one RepRap machine to make its own
parts will clear the way for "a chicken in every pot", given enough
cycles of doubling time.

Only if it makes something useful. Making vast seas of repraps with
nothing to do won't solve any problems.
These are not the only two technologies exhibiting or subject to
exponential growth, and for certain, not every technology is subject
to such growth.

Just a thought I had....I see fewer and fewer posts about metalworking
here in rec.crafts.metalworing, and more and more debate on political
concerns. Why not combine the two, and let the best idea win?
It will all be over by mid November, I HOPE!

Jon