With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.