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Article Excerpt
The graph illustrating exponential growth has become a cliche of speeded-up turbo-capitalism. Whether it is types of vinegar or video games produced, sale of computers, pollutants released into the air, consumer debt, expansion of the gross domestic product -- it all hurtles upwards, fast.
SPEEDING UP
We speed up everything -- our work, our entertainment, our consumption of resources, our travel, our communication systems, our expectations, our lives. Where we are going remains a mystery. But the costs of the journey are starting to mount.
* The World Economy has expanded from $4 trillion in output in 1950 to more than $20 trillion in 1995. Countries now industrializing are doing so much faster than in the past. The Chinese economy grew...
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