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Efficacy of lighting has been gaining annually about 2.6% since Edison’s first light bulb. The energy cost of making steel, the defining metal of modern civilization, has been declining by less than 2%/year since 1950 (Smil 2016a). And the maximum speed of air travel has remained approximately constant since the beginning of regular jetliner service
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Traditionally things don't move at Moore's law but rather improve 2% annually.
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
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