futurePOP

The amount of data consumed each month by online video will more than quadruple between 2011 and 2016, from 10,000 petabytes last year to more than 45,000 petabytes in 2016. To put that in context, one petabyte is a million gigabytes. The entire written works of mankind to date runs to 50 petabytes. By 2016 we’ll have six million years of video every month crossing the internet every month.

You need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. ‘You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,’ he said.’I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.’ He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. ‘You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.’