75,000-Fold Hardware Improvement — The Straight Line That Predicts the

Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261 · Jun 3, 2026 Technology

On a semi-log chart, 75 years of computing improvement looks like a straight line — from relay computers in 1939 to Nvidia GPUs today. That straight line is why AGI is inevitable and why most people are still shocked by it.