Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of… — Ray Kurzweil

A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.

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The Law of Accelerating Returns: As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (that is, the time interval between salient events grows shorter as time passes). The Law... applies specifically to evolutionary processes.