It’s like the old “I’ll give you a penny today and double it tomorrow, then double that the next day”, and so on puzzle. A penny isn’t a lot of money now, but over time it grows exponentially larger. Doubling a penny can grow to $5,368,709.12 in just 30 days.
Now imagine the those pennies are human knowledge and you can see how we started off slowly but as time went on we essentially “doubled” our knowledge. Then at one point the knowledge doubling was bigger and happened more quickly.
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