Anything that becomes digitized (biology, medicine, manufacturing, and so forth) hops on Moore's law of increasing computational power. - Peter Diamandis

sixty-seven years.14 Not anymore. Today the final three Ds in our chain reaction can disassemble companies and disrupt industries almost overnight, reducing the average life span of a twenty-first-century S&P 500 company to only fifteen years. Ten years from now, according to research done at the Babson School of Business, more than 40 percent of today's top companies will no longer

From the very beginning of time until the year 2003," says Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, "humankind created five exabytes of digital information. An exabyte is one billion gigabytes — or a 1 with eighteen zeroes after it. Right now, in the year 2010, the human race is generating five exabytes of information every two days. By the year 2013, the number will be five exabytes produced every ten minutes … It's no wonder we're exhausted.

the four billion people occupying the lowest strata of the economic pyramid, the so-called bottom billion, had lately become a viable economic market.