Thread: The 2012 'Paradigm Shift.' Is it in its beginning stages?

Originally Posted by Spartiate

All I can say is that if you think that this year is the "end" or "apex" of human progress (technological, social, etc.), then you will be proven wrong in the decades to come.

Just saw this. Spart, do you know what an apex is? In the context of what we were talking about (the exponential model) the apex of the graph that xei posted is the point at which the graph turns sharply upwards. How does this imply that I think progress is going to end? Theoretically it means that progress will begin to advance more quickly than we can even imagine. I just found an article from 2007 that cites an IBM study that projected that the world's amount of digital information would be doubling every 11 hours by 2010. I'm sure we are closer to doubling every minute by now. The amount of time it takes for global digital information to double seems to me to be counting down to close enough to 12/21/12 to me to be a highly significant coincidence if nothing else.