Exponential acceleration & Six Ds

 I am reading the Bühler, Erich R. Leading Exponential Change book. It is very interesting.

At the end of each chapter he shares: what you learned, so the topics, but he has also some questions to the reader. "Do you remember what is Exponential acceleration"? Very powerful.

Exponential acceleration

In 1999, Raymond Kurzweil, recognized futurist and the director of engineering at Google, proposed the law of accelerating returns.

The rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems tends to increase exponentially when their systems are converted into digital information.

The evolution of digital photography is mentioned in the book. I really like this example.

Six Ds

The six Ds of Exponentials have to be considered to identify the stage of acceleration a product has reached.

1. Digitalization  
2. Deception  
3. Disruption  
4. Demonetization  
5. Dematerialization  
6. Democratization

"In the case of Kodak, once film changed from a physical to a digital medium, its rate of growth turned totally unpredictable."