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Gillette plans Singularity in 2015

Started by Triple Zero, May 01, 2011, 08:39:48 PM

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Triple Zero

May 01, 2011, 08:39:48 PM
Via http://agrumer.livejournal.com/414194.html


Someone at The Economist with a bit of extra time on his hands was looking at the recent proliferation of many-bladed razors, and noticed that the time gap between blade increments seems to be shrinking: 70 years before someone added the second blade, a couple of decades to the third, only two or three years between the four-bladed Schick Quattro and the five-bladed Gillette Fusion. Might there be a Moore's Law for razors blades? Hence the chart over there.

Now, that power-law curve predicts 14-bladed razors by the year 2100, but that's not the interesting curve. The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you'd need godlike super-technology to do that.

Right. There it is, proof of the approaching Vingean Singularity, sooner than anyone expected it, clear as the chin on your face.		               
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#1
May 01, 2011, 09:11:14 PM
I remember a Mad Magazine cartoon from the early to mid 80's featuring a razor with some absurd number of blades.

Also, "Boeing" is an onomatopoeia.
Formerly something else...

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#2
May 01, 2011, 09:34:36 PM
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#3
May 01, 2011, 09:44:11 PM
I'm waiting for facial flensing to catch on in lieu of other grooming options.
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#4
May 01, 2011, 09:45:08 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on May 01, 2011, 09:44:11 PM
I'm waiting for facial flensing to catch on in lieu of other grooming options.

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#5
May 01, 2011, 10:38:31 PM
Obviously this is why the Universe is going to destroy our planet in 2012. The Gillette Singularity must be stopped.
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Cain

#6
May 02, 2011, 05:53:24 PM
UNLIMITED RAZOR BLADES!

I suddenly find myself in favour of The Singularity.

Slyph

#7
May 04, 2011, 03:10:16 PM
Ever use a Bic Classic? Shit's like a carpenter's plane. Rather shave with a fucking trowel.

AFK

#8
May 05, 2011, 05:47:30 PM
Seems like by then they should be better at not creating razor burn. 
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GIGGLES

#9
May 13, 2011, 02:42:26 PM
NANOBLADES ARE THE FUTURE, FAGGOTS!

Rumckle

#10
May 14, 2011, 02:44:04 PM
FUCK THAT, I WANNA SHAVE WITH A LIGHT SABER!
It's not trolling, it's just satire.

Jenne

#11
May 14, 2011, 08:04:24 PM
I think SNL had a clip on this years ago.  NOT about the concept of achieving singularity but instead the infinite number of blades introduced in their razors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStI9ysPrhs&feature=related  (this one may not be it, seems there's quite a few parodies on razors with the same theme out there)
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