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Twenty years ago, finding a piece of information as simple as a biography on someone meant making a special trip to the library, finding a book, checking it out, and driving back. All this took about 30-45 minutes. Today, you can find a biography on someone in 10 seconds. That’s right: ten seconds.

Driven by the Internet, the New World we live in today is truly different that the world 10, 20, 40 years ago. A short movie I recently saw, Shift Happens 2, outlines changes that have happened over the last few decades. You can find this video on YouTube.

With the recent (or not) appearance of Web 2.0, you can now carry around all your data and programs anywhere you go that has Internet access. The same can be done with USB drives, with a 4 GB drive available for all of $20 (on Amazon), allowing you to put all your programs and data onto it (see portableapps.com). In the near future, you will be able to fit every single piece of music in the world onto a device the size of an iPod.

The world will change drastically over the next 20 years, and we will all be witnesses of this.