Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis | |
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 Modis in 2020 | |
| Born | 11 August 1943 |
| Education | Anatolia College Columbia University |
| Known for | Expertise in S-Curve Criticism of the technological singularity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, forecasting, business consulting |
| Workplaces | CERN University of Geneva Digital Equipment Corporation Growth Dynamics |
Academic advisors | Jack Steinberger |
Theodore Modis (born 11 August 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. He is a vehement critic of the concept of the technological singularity. He has suggested a simple mathematical relationship between entropy and complexity as the latter being the time derivative of the former. He has argued that societal complexity may be nearing — or already at — its peak.
He currently lives in Lugano, Switzerland.