ConceptSociety
the exponential gap
The widening space between what technology makes possible and what society can absorb.
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The exponential gap is the distance between the steeper-and-steeper line of technological capability and the much flatter line of social, regulatory, and economic adaptation. The wider the gap grows, the more tension accumulates: regulatory vacuums, economic mismatch, ethical dilemmas without operational answers.
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