MetaState: Science Since Babylon, Part 12 - Exponential Growth & Unflattening the Sigmoid Curve

Covering all of Chapter 8, Price considers a more granular take on the great contributions of scientific discovery.  A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here. The acceleration from Bodkin to cocktail dinner napkin takes continues. Taking on a now graphical analysis, from Enlightenment to 1900, it is predicted that the pace of scientific research and cultural emphasis is growing at an unsustainable rate, building towards a job-fulfillment vacuum of inestimable imagination. Nations are catching up with one another, and with each new nation-state starting ever-later in the race, all the more experience they seem to possess in leap-frogging the previous nations technological evolutionary path. Where will we be in the electronic age? Can society manage an ever-present scientific trajectory? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-bentham/support