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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.
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Sometimes, a deeper order—a better fit to a purpose—is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity.
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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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Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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