cost is a function of supply AND demand. if technology increases supply 100x but demand increases 100x (as it historically has) cost will stay the same, no abundance, no post-scarcity.
Or you can say were on an exponential and we can still make accurate enough predictions about the future, but this contradicts your claim we can’t project these trends.
Most experts do not think this way. Most experts use linear progressions when dealing with exponential technologies. Solar is coming faster than any expert has predicted.
Not “how do we adapt to the exponential trend” how does the exponential trend provide any predictive power if we are discrediting the ability of trends to predict the future.
However to construct the exponential trend (and project it into the future, because what else are trends good for?) you have to rely on historical data.
You suggested bc of trend A past trends no longer predict the future. Thus trend F will happen. I countered with, if past trends no longer predict the future A doesn’t hold either.
You say were on an exponential trend and that this trend will continue into the future, A. I’ve said demand increases to match supply and this trend will continue into the future, E.
Yes, when something doubles at .01 to .02 to .04 its deceptive and mimics a linear trend. But disruption comes in eventually and people can't catch up with it.
Sorry should have explained more earlier but had to run. only point was on the paradox you set up. I suggested looking at historical trends to see if demand matched increasing supply
yes, individuals & individual companies will have a difficult time but the most adaptable system I know is the free market, so seems like the best bet when mass change is predicted.
We will become an interplanetary species. 3-d printing will allow open source competition for pennies per pound of raw material. Autonomous vehicles will disrupt many sectors.
on edu depends if we're talking content (yeah will likely or already is free), talking going 2 school (which is really for making connections) likely not free but hope cheaper than now
agree with these, agree education will become cheap (not free though) I'm a maybe on solar & dont think healthcare will be free (medtech advances are crazy expensive).
By the way, I agree, linear & centralized is slow & we are likely advancing faster than linear. I do not think the change will be sudden (e.g. singularity) nor impossible to deal with.
Solar will dominate globally within 5 years, in the US within 10. Education and healthcare will be free by the end of the 2030s. Transportation as a service will end car ownership.