Free-market economics helped drive globalisation. And globalisation helped kindle the Exponential Age. All this means we can trace the beginnings of an era of exponential technology not just to the discovery of Moore’s Law or the creation of the seminal Intel 4004 processor in 1971. Just as important was the emergence of a new political orthodoxy. From the late 1970s onwards, free-market capitalism would unleash the power of exponentiality.
