Technology is exponential – but humans are LINEAR: Keck’s Law, Moore’s Law…Gerd’s law? – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

You all know Moore’s law, and possibly Keck’s law, see below. Read more via The Economist. Both curves are EXPONENTIAL (as is Metcalf’s law of Networks, I suppose). I have talked about this for the past few years – our challenge is that humans are NOT. We are linear and organic, not binary but multinary (read my Forbes post on this topic).

So can I humbly present ‘Gerd’s law’?

The more we connect with technology, the more we must protect what makes us human.

Read more about exponential vs linear, and technology / humanity: GerdFeed links.

We need to transcend technology, not humanity!

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