Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time

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In order of appearence:

17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Image Reconstruction Time (Seconds)
1972	800
1972.91	300
1975.91	150
1976.91	120
1993	2
1999	0.01
2004	0.0025
Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time, Seconds, Logarithmic Plot, pg 160 Source: Manuel Trajtenberg, Economic Analysis of Product Innovation: The Case of CT Scanners (Cambridge,Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1990); Michael H. Friebe, Ph.D., president, CEO, NEUROMED GmbH; Philips Medical Systems www.medical.philips.com; Magnetic Resonance Technology Information Portal, http://www.mr-tip.com/serv1.php?type=db1&dbs=brain%20imaging&set=4.