Theodore Modis
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Theodore Modis (born August 11, 1943) is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant. He specializes in applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. In particular, he uses the law of natural growth in competition as expressed by the logistic function or S-curve to forecast markets, product sales, primary-energy substitutions, the diffusion of technologies, and generally any process that grows in competition.[1][2][3][4][5] He is a vehement critic of the concept of the Technological Singularity.[6][7][8][9][10] He has suggested a simple mathematical relationship between Entropy and Complexity as the latter being the time derivative of the former.[11]
Theodore Modis | |
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Born | (1943-08-11) August 11, 1943 (age 80) |
Nationality | Greek, Swiss |
Alma mater | Anatolia College Columbia University |
Known for | Expertise in S-Curve Criticism of the Technological Singularity |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, forecasting, business consulting |
Institutions | CERN University of Geneva Digital Equipment Corporation Growth Dynamics |
Academic advisors | Jack Steinberger |
He currently lives in Lugano, Switzerland.