Our connected future

When you reach the giga, peta, and exa orders of quantities, strange new powers emerge. You can do things at these scales that would have been impossible before...

Kevin Kelly has talked about the coming age of data, oodles of the stuff thanks to the Internet and what we're doing with it. Here's a nice video visualising how all this data and the devices connecting to it will define the future, albeit at the scale of trillions rather than zillions...

...and the makers of the video have more details on their web site - MAYA Design - including a research paper for download (PDF).

Related posts: Tim O'Reilly's talk about The Internet Paradigm and Kevin Kelly's Zillionics Change Perspective