Next steps for simulation modeling
For most of human history, it has been reasonable to expect that when you die, the world will not be significantly different from when you were born. Over the past 300 years, this assumption has become increasingly outdated. This is because technological progress is continuously accelerating. Technological evolution translates into a next-generation product better than the previous one. This product is therefore a more efficient and effective way of developing the next stage of evolutionary progress. It is a positive feedback circuit. In other words, we are using more powerful and faster tools to design and build more powerful and faster tools. Consequently, the rate of progress of an evolutionary process increases exponentially over time, and the benefits such as speed, economy, and overall power also increase exponentially over time. As an evolutionary process becomes more effective and/or efficient, more resources are then used to encourage the...