Covid-19 Trendscape ~ Comparative Exponentials

Andreas Burkert has been updating Covid-19 exponential trendscape plots.  This one's most recent as of Friday 13th posting, but see his FB page for the latest...

Surreal Value ~ Apple's Exponential Exhuberance

The FT reports on the Apple Effect...

"When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was valued at $3bn, less than one-tenth of Siemens, Europe’s largest industrial group then and now. Today, Apple is worth more than Germany’s 30 leading companies."

Exponential Technologies ~ Towards Abundance...

UD spots Exponential Technologies leading to Abundance 360...

"Armed with exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, 3D printing and cloud computing, today's entrepreneurs are poised to create abundance. This Draw Shop video, originally created for entrepreneurs in Peter Diamandis' Abundance 360 coaching program, illustrates the powerful implications of six key technologies: 3D printing, robotics, artificial intelligence, the "Internet of Things," infinite computing and synthetic biology."

Abundance ~ Diamandis on Breakthrough Inno's

A couple of Peter Diamandis talks on Abundance...

Exponential Technologies ~ Diamandis on WSJ

WSJ's Alan Murray at CIO Network interviews X-Prize founder and Abundance author Peter Diamandis on Eight Technologies Are Making the World Better...

"We’re literally at the knee-curve of a massive explosion of innovation. [...] The gap between the wealthiest and the poorest people may well increase, but that the definition of poverty will keep changing, much as it has over the last 100 years. He noted that 99% of the poorest people in the U.S. have amenities that the wealthiest people of 100 years ago couldn’t imagine. “It’s not about creating a world of luxury, but of creating a world of possibility" [...] I think it’s an amazing world."

P.S. The Diamandis Eight...

1. Biotech ~ Everyday editing of life; 
2. Computational Systems ~ Modeling everything; 
3. Networks & Sensors ~ Embedding for understanding; 
4. Artificial Intelligence ~ Personal super-assistants; 
5. Robotics ~ Automating ever-more activities; 
6. Digital Manufacturing ~ 3D printing all objects; 
7. Medical Technology ~ Anticipatory diagnostics; 
8. Nanotechnology ~ Materializing tomorrow. 

Bring them on!

Platform Adoption Ramps ~ Race to Billion Users

Horace Dediu at Asymco compares adoption ramp-ups of different platforms in their decade after launch in the Race to a Billion 2012...