Posted inWriting Posted inMisinformation Visualization The Infinity Razor Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 16, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6132Draft – never publishedThis is an old favorite of mine that I’m glad to see survives in some form on the web. Close to 20 years ago, The Economist ran an article where they noted an interesting trend: https://web.archive.org/web/20181120231744/https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2006/03/16/the-cutting-edgeThey noted that in it was over 70 years after King Gillette invented the disposable safety razor before marketing geniuses invented the Trac II, with two blades. Only slightly more than 20 years later, the triple-blade Mach3 debuted, followed shortly by the four-blade Quattro and even sooner by the 5-blade Fusion.Where their analysis departs from the more pedestrian studies of the subject is the rigor with which they analyzed the trend. By two different curve-fitting methodologies, they found that at the very least, by a simple power law curve, by 2100 we’ll be shaving with 14-blade razors. However, by the best curve-fitting, the data appears to be hyperbolic, which proves we are actually approaching a singularity—meaning within just a handful of years [actually 4 years ago, as I post this in 2023 on my new site —Mike] we will all be shaving with the Infinity Razor.I hope by then they make a styptic pencil big enough, because I tend to fuck up big time. Mike Kupietz , a reluctant scion of the postmodern age, is larger on the inside than the outside: perhaps not a composer, but a producer and arranger of sounds; nor a writer, but an avid writer-down; an occasional author of doggerel; an erstwhile urban hermit; and privately a man of very great ardor. He is, if now resigned to never succeeding at those personal and artistic pursuits he holds most dear, unwavering in his determination to fail at them as entertainingly as possible. He is currently in what he calls the "red bathrobe period" of his life. If you're wondering what all this has to do with FileMaker development or IT consulting: you done taken the wrong turn, this river don't go to Aintry—Mike's professional services are on his San Francisco FileMaker Pro consulting website. View All PostsPost navigationPrevious Post More than Coincidence? The Bushes, the CIA, an inexplicable disease cluster, and a TV showNext PostOde to “Ode To A Croaking Man”