| 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. | (http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4272/razors.gif) |
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.