Information blowup

• Today on our planet 183 billion e-mail messages are daily transferred (more than 2 million messages per second).
• Every day users make 1.6 million entries in blogs.
• Every minute video records lasting at 20 o'clock are loaded into YouTube.
• For the next two years the total amount of data annually will increase six times, and the volume of corporate data – by 50 times.
• In 210 years of the existence the world's largest Library of Congress of the USA saved up more than 29 million books and periodicals, 4.8 million cards, 2.7 records and 57 million manuscripts. Today the similar volume of digital information is generated in five minutes.
• Information volume, weekly published in the New York Times newspaper, exceeds the amount of data what in the 18th century of people received for all the life.

In 2015 approaches "eksapotop"

In 2015 in only 12 months the information volume equal to 92.5 million Libraries of Congress of the USA will be created:

• corporate IP traffic will generate near the 100th exabyte;
• still the 100th exabyte will be generated by loading of movies and peer-to-peer user file sharing;
• video communications and the virtual worlds will generate near the 400th exabyte.

In 1956 when the first hard drive was created, the storage system of one megabyte of information cost, at today's prices (adjusted for inflation), 78.000 US dollars, and "supercomputer" with such hard drive weighed more than a ton.

in 2029 for only 100 dollars it will be possible to purchase a system for storage the 11th petabyte of data. The petabyte is equal to one quadrillion bytes, i.e. one byte with 15 zero, and the 11th petabyte is a video if it continuously write on Flip the camera since 1492 to this day, and in such device still there would be an unused stock of electronic memory. In other words, the capacity of means of storage grows, by leaps and bounds, and their cost is promptly reduced.

Astronomical changes and in the field of computing technologies approach: to the middle of the 2020th years quantum computers will appear. Today the computing power of the PC worth about one thousand dollars is 2-3 percent of power of the human brain executing about 100 trillion calculations per second. By 2050 the computing power of the computer cost in the same 1.000 dollars will be equal to calculation capacity of all 9 billion people who will inhabit our planet by then.

In the information sphere we observe fast distribution of a set of new applications, video clips, musical files, cloud computing, on-line transactions of reservation, storage, etc. All this creates what it is possible to call "eksapotopy". Today the one and only Cisco TelePresence application generates more traffic, than all Worldwide network at the beginning of this millennium.

• Shortly more than one trillion devices will be connected to the Internet. It will be not only cell phones, but also a set of office controllers – from temperature sensors to the devices which are reading out electronic the admission. People will entrust to networks more and more intellectual functions, and as a result of network will purchase a set of new opportunities, including the translation from one language on another.
• Tablet devices like iPad will be widely adopted more. The person will be able to contract the computer and to put it in a pocket. Glass windows will purchase function of displays.
• The pico projectors existing nowadays by 2012 will begin to use the gigabit technology for wireless data transmission which is built in mobile devices. As a result people will be able to use mobile devices with high-speed connection and functions of demonstration of images in a natural size for video conferencing in any place – houses, aboard, etc. Besides, using the pico projector of people will be able to project the keyboard of the cell phone on the palm and to dial on it the necessary number. Any surface will be able to become the computing device.
• Augmented reality (Augmented Reality is the virtual computer images increasing the size of physical things) develops with great strides and in about five years will become a dominant technology in the world of "white collars". Imagine conferees over whose heads "clouds" with indication of their names, open questions, unresolved problems, etc. hang. It will be possible to see the same information in several years on lenses of normal points, and in about 10 years – and on contact lenses.
• At offices there will be "virtual assistants" capable to find the necessary information and to cope with information "eksapotopy". Employees will be able shortly to communicate with such "virtual assistants", exchanging with them electronic and voice messages. It will save workers in the flesh and blood from a number of routine duties, having allowed them to focus on accomplishment of more creative tasks. Robots have bigger endurance and ingenuity already now, than living people and therefore we will see even more often them in workplaces.
• Person machine interfaces. In the market there is already a game MindFlex worth 80 dollars. Players in it attach the small device to the head and by force of thought move a ball on a screen labyrinth. Besides, people use power of thought to manage artificial extremities, and such extremity shall not be attached to a body of the person physically. And now provide the New York doctor who in the remote mode operates the person on other end of the continent.

• According to the chief futurologist of consulting division of Cisco Systems company Dave Evans