Uploaded November 2008 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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Technology Explosion is a simple name for a familiar phenomenon - namely that technological evolution is accelerating in an explosive manner.

Technology is exploding in the same way that the atomic nucleii in a nuclear bomb explode: by exhibiting an unconstrained exponential growth process.

The Technology Explosion is analogous to I. J. Good's Intelligence Explosion. Transcript: alife.co.uk/essays/technology_explosion