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Just when you caught your breath, a new era is emerging—one that transcends the familiar bounds of exponential growth to venture into the breathless territories of super-exponential acceleration. This ...

The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States rose from 1 to 100 in a little more than two weeks. About a week later, the number skyrocketed to 1,000. Those numbers are tragic. For many people ...

For one thing, it would take us 100 billion years to grow up otherwise. “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,” and it ...

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In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: ...

Technology companies aren't the only ones that can profit from technological advances. Nor are startups the only ones harnessing technology to generate significantly positive growth. Take, for example ...

A variable undergoing logistic growth initially grows exponentially. After some time, the rate of growth decreases and the function levels off, forming a sigmoid, or s-shaped curve. For example, an ...