The Harrow Technology Report: "Moore's Law (that the number of transistors on a chip will double every eighteen months at the same price) is the culprit behind the exponential growth of the computer-related technology that has dramatically altered how we work, live, and play over the past 35 years. This massive, rapid, compounding growth of computing power provides, perhaps for the first time in history, the opportunity for average people to detect, observe, and participate in the results of exponential growth.

But of course, even though it's hard for us humans to perceive and appreciate even ONE exponential effect, Nature is FULL of exponential things, such as distance. For example, the diameter of the Earth is 12.76E+6 meters wide (12.76 times ten to the plus-six power), while a common plant cell is 12.76E-6 meters wide (12.76 times 10 to the minus-six power), or 12 orders of magnitude (powers of ten) smaller. And that comparison is right under our noses. But how far does this go? See 'Powers of Ten'."