How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future

This is the third in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. "The future is widely misunderstood. Our forebears expected it to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past." For most of history, our experience has been "local and linear." Not much change occurred generation to generation: We used the same tools, ate the same meals, lived in the same general place.