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Technological progress looks smooth and exponential from a distance but is actually made of individual S-curves up close.

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  1. Tim Urban

    Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why

    If you zoom out on a story of technology, you usually see a big exponential curve. But if you look at the curve up close, you see that it's wavy, made of S-curves.

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