In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: ...
Suppose you saw in the news that there was a new disease, and one person was hospitalized with it. There had been no hospitalizations before today—and yet, there had been 12,800 positive tests today ...
Exponential growth compounds investment returns over time, enhancing long-term wealth. S&P 500's historic 10% annual return illustrates exponential growth's impact on investments. Staying invested in ...
Just when you caught your breath, a new era is emerging—one that transcends the familiar bounds of exponential growth to venture into the breathless territories of super-exponential acceleration. This ...
For the last couple of years, coronavirus has been teaching a master class on exponential growth: from January 2020, when 100 cases in China led the WHO to call a public health emergency, to today, ...
Sure, “exponential growth” sounds impressive. But it usually isn’t. By Manil Suri Dr. Suri teaches math at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Here’s a trend I find worrisome enough to ...