Today’s Exponential Rate of Change Rick Fenwick, Ph.D. In 1973, George Anderla, a French economist working for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wanted a way to measure the exponential rate of change in the amount of information possessed within society. He reasoned that humanity accumulated knowledge from the very beginning of life to the year 1 A.D. He defined this as a measure of "known scientific facts" and labled it has "one jesus" in honor of Jes