What is Kurzweils Law?
Kurzweil’s law, or the law of accelerating returns, explains how positive feedback works in technological innovation and development: if you invent a better set of tools, you can then use those tools to invent newer and better tools more rapidly. Kurzweil’s law was formulated in response to a question posed to leading thinkers by John Brockman of Edge.org, namely, “What is your law?” Ray Kurzweil is a top technology entrepreneur, having founded four successful companies that remain leaders in their markets. He’s also the best-selling author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Age of Intelligent Machines, among other futurist and scientific works. Perhaps the best example of Kurzweil’s law in action is in the computing industry. Computers are continuously used to design better chips, and in fact the majority of details for new chip designs are worked out algorithmically by computers. Another example would be in robotics, where finer and more flexible automation is used to fabricate
