There's a lot to remember these days. Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, there were five exabytes of data collected (an exabyte = 1 quintillion bytes). Today five exabytes of data get collected every two days. Soon, there will be five exabytes every few minutes. (Don Tapscott in Designing Your Mind)
The implications of items such as Google glass, and life logging are astounding, and not simply in a big data sense. How are we to deal with all this data in how we think, recall, and synthesize what's around us, into experience we can use..? Technology will be the enabler, but the significant change coming quickly at each of us is not appreciated I think. We're about to personally experience Moore's Law on steroids, on crack, with a triple expresso on the side.
We're going to have to make choices, we're going to have to switch off vast areas, and we're going to experience an intellectual renaissance as a species, once we understand the depth we can reach as time in everyone's reality can be tracked, in real time, at the same time. This has implications across everything we think about, and touch.
Fasten your seatbelt, the next big shift is almost here.
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