Value Investing In An Environment Of Accelerating Technological Change

Value Investing in an Environment of Accelerating Technological Change by Victor Wendl, WENDL Financial

The director of research at Google, Ray Kurzweil, wrote a book a number of years ago titled The Singularity. It is a point in the not-too-distant future where the fields of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics will advance to such a level that our own biological limitations will be enhanced beyond recognition. These technologies are accelerating at an exponential rate, where each stage in the progression over a fixed time interval results in a doubling from the previous level. Leaps in technological progress are moving forward not at a linear rate (1-2-3-4-5) but at an exponential one (1-2-4-8-16-32).

In Kurzweil’s book, multiple examples...