We have mentioned several times in our book and posts how information generation is evolving exponentially. Another statistics: “According to a calculation Hal Varian, an economist at Google, and I made, total worldwide information has been increasing at the rate of 66 percent per year for many decades.” – says Kevin Kelly in ‘What Technology Wants‘. Refer to the the exponential deception to really understand what that means!
“Compare that explosion to the rate of increase in even the most prevalent manufactured stuff —such as concrete or paper— which averages only 7 percent annually over decades” Kevin Kelly continues.
But the most astonishing is not that. The most astonishing is that we seem to evolve much quicker as well: “Today, according to research on the mutations in our DNA, our genes are evolving 100 times faster than in preagricultural times“. Evolution is also quicker!
We are part of the system that evolves, and our evolution pace also quickens – although not as quickly as the world around us.