The Expansion of Ignorance

The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding 10 times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet. According to a calculation Hal Varian, an economist at Google, and I made, worldwide information has been increasing at the rate of 66 percent per year for many decades. Compare that explosion to the rate of increase in even the most prolific manufactured stuff–like concrete, or paper–which averages only 7 percent annually over decades.

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