Actually the correct conclusion to draw from the graph is that if things continue as they have been, then something utterly unpredictable happens at 2047 because the model breaks there and predicts imaginary numbers for future gross world product.
The graph is not at all an argument for “business as usual”! Bob should be expecting something completely unprecedented to happen in less than 30 years.
I wonder if it will end up like Moore’s law; keeps going despite seeming absurd until it hits a physical limit. For Moore’s law that was “it’s scaled down until you get atom-thick components and then it stops” and for GWP it would be “scales up until we max out the value of the light cone and then it only continues to scale like a sphere expanding at the speed of light”.
Actually the correct conclusion to draw from the graph is that if things continue as they have been, then something utterly unpredictable happens at 2047 because the model breaks there and predicts imaginary numbers for future gross world product.
The graph is not at all an argument for “business as usual”! Bob should be expecting something completely unprecedented to happen in less than 30 years.
I wonder if it will end up like Moore’s law; keeps going despite seeming absurd until it hits a physical limit. For Moore’s law that was “it’s scaled down until you get atom-thick components and then it stops” and for GWP it would be “scales up until we max out the value of the light cone and then it only continues to scale like a sphere expanding at the speed of light”.