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Bitcoin to reach $10000 usd. It increased 10 times in 2013, so why not again.


Simpsons' funny take on why extrapolating from past results can be bad: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcCWP8wCIAA4LQw.jpg


Nice. This is mainly the reason I find kurzweil's predictions hard to swallow. Although he essentially argues that a series of s-curves for each separate technology add together to form never ending exponential growth overall. Not sure I buy it. I mean you could look at the music industry growth as a series of s-curves for each genre, which have produced good overall growth, but then that growth has now stalled.




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