The computational density of the noösphere has been rising non-monotonically since about 1800, and on top of the population bubble—now slackening, but still adding about 1020 additional synapses per second to the ensemble—we have the Moore’s Law bubble, with upwards of twenty microprocessors per human being—again, on the order of a billion operations per second, even the embedded controllers in your washing machine—and so, given that magic is a side effect of applied mathematics, we’re approaching the Twinkie singularity.”
