This is a fantastic 6 minute video that just hits you with stat after stat about how quickly the technological world is advancing and gives you a clue as to how it may affect you. I wonder if people living in the early 20th century looked at the introduction of cars, airplanes and telephones and marvelled at how quickly technology was progressing and then wondered whether it was moving too quickly.

Some of my favoriate stats: a week’s worth of the NY Times is estimated to contain more information than an 18th century person was likely to come across in their lifetime. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10¹⁸) of information of unique information will be generated this year (an exabyte is 1000 million times a Gigabyte (GB)). That 1.5 exabytes is estimated to be more than in the past 5000 years.