For starters, forget about PCs. For every desktop computer, there are 10 mobile devices. Around the world, mobile phones outnumber toothbrushes two-to-one.
"Hyper-connectivity will change every business model and supply chain; it's at an inflection point this year... and the uptake of connectivity is accelerating ever more," says the boss of one of the companies powering the internet.
It also works at home. Connectivity is making us more powerful shoppers. We can watch the films that we want, when we want them. It connects us better to our networks of friends.
"When the railroads were built, there were people who argued that humans would suffer brain damage from seeing the landscape rush by so fast, and I ask myself, am I one of them."
Information overflow, the "abundant distractions of the internet" can change our cognitive abilities. It may be a generational thing, though.
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