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[neonowl]

I hate coming up with something that already exists... I just thought "excrementally" instead of "exponentially" and was going to announce it as a new term meaning "becoming exponentially crappy"
but I googled it first and found out that it's already been doneSpeaking of exponential, right now I'm freaking out--as I occasionally do--over a somewhat

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[cyniccat]

The snowball effect. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that jazz.

[grumpymartian]

There have been other huge leaps. Agriculture was HUGE, industrialization... it keeps happening over and over again. People with time, resources and a need will discover new things. People living a hand to mouth existence have a hard time with innovation. All of these big changes haven't only changed technology but have changed us socially and physically.