Faster, Faster

It will be very interesting what they label our age in 50 years. Right now I’m up to the acronym S.K.I.I. – Space, Knowledge, Information, Internet Age. The difficulty pegging one label is a reflection of how fast our life is changing. There are exciting things happening out there. The most obvious changes we see are technological. From mapping genes and brain neurons to cloud computing, inventions that were unthinkable a relatively short time ago. Realize that the personal computer and the internet were just started only about 30 years ago.  

A friend of mine Bill Blair (who worked for the Electric Power Research Institute and loves to track these things) pointed out to me the other day that they now count 3 billion users of the Internet. With Earth’s population at around 6 billion – that means 50% of the planet uses the World Wide Web. In 1969 the first message was sent over ARPAnet — the world’s first multiple-site computer network between UCLA and Stanford Research Center. With a series of inventions that made it possible, in 1989 there were100,000 connections on the Internet. Now half the planet has adopted a process that has only been in existence for 20 years and only 40 years ago was just the start of an idea for information sharing of knowledge between universities. more…

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