13 December 2009

The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race

...is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Stick with this clip, even if you feel like you are back in high school maths class - because that's clearly where we all need to be once the implications of this sink in! The chess story at 4.20 helps us understand the predicament we face if we persist with growth.

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