Thus have computational improvements in weather forecasting delivered a body blow to an industry as seemingly immune to technology advances as Buenos… - Salim Ismail

One reason for this debacle, according to Dan Colussy, who drove Iridium's buyout in 2000, was the company's refusal to update business assumptions. "The Iridium business plan was locked in place twelve years before the system became operational," he recalls. That's a long time, long enough that it was almost impossible to predict where the state of the art in digital communications would be by the time the satellite system was at last in place. We thus label this an Iridium Moment — using linear tools and the trends of the past to predict an accelerating future.

According to entrepreneur Chris Dixon, the most important change for entrepreneurs versus a decade ago is the ratio of reach to capital. Today, the reach of a startup is 100x larger, while the capital needed is one tenth that of a decade ago — a thousandfold improvement in just ten years.

Una de las claves del mundo exponencial es que cualquier visión que tengas a día de hoy va a convertirse rápidamente en obsoleta y así tienes que continuar mejorando tu conocimiento sobre las tecnologías y sobre las capacidades organizativas.