The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Azeem Azhar
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
The new technology that will exist will be one that extends healthy life expectancy. In a world of declining population, this is the problem to be solved, and it will be solved by science. But as I have said, this will create a new problem. A nation dominated by the elderly, however vigorous and healthy, is a nation dominated by the old. It is domi
... See moreMore information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth. In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total. And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 “exabytes” of new information—roughly the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.