Re:What Comes After the Roomba?
by robocat on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:14AM
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I recall seeing something about agriculture productivity improving at 1% per year over many many decades - maybe that wasn't compounding though.
The first search result I found had this: "we track four key global crops—maize, rice, wheat, and soybean—that currently produce nearly two-thirds of global agricultural calories. We find that yields in these top four crops are increasing at 1.6%, 1.0%, 0.9%, and 1.3% per year, non-compounding rates"*
Another example is fuel efficiency of cars? Although that has hard limits.
Sure, nothing like electronics, but over decades slow compounding of small amounts does matter to us all.
The first search result I found had this: "we track four key global crops—maize, rice, wheat, and soybean—that currently produce nearly two-thirds of global agricultural calories. We find that yields in these top four crops are increasing at 1.6%, 1.0%, 0.9%, and 1.3% per year, non-compounding rates"*
Another example is fuel efficiency of cars? Although that has hard limits.
Sure, nothing like electronics, but over decades slow compounding of small amounts does matter to us all.
* https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...