1. exponential - Noun
2. exponential - Adjective
Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTechnology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. Nicholas Negroponte
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb. Frederik Pohl
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding
The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I'll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it. Tom Clancy
It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century. Ray Kurzweil