by José Luis Stevens

As we approach 2012, information in almost every field imaginable is exploding, growing and expanding at an unprecedented speed. It has been calculated by scientists that our knowledge base is growing so fast that what once took one thousand years to learn subsequently took only the next five hundred years, then two hundred and fifty years, then one hundred and twenty five years until the present when what formerly took a thousand years to collect only takes a few days to become available. Calculations show that by the time we reach December 2012, the amount of information that becomes available keeps doubling in half the time. Soon it will reach one second and then no one knows what will happen after that as it continues to half to some infinitesimal amount of time and the amount of information becomes infinite.