Kurt Jarchow's Blog

I just followed a techmeme link to Nicholas Carr’s blog mentioning more ramblings from Mark Zuckerberg.  He quotes him saying, “I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and [the] next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before”, which seems like a lame attempt to immortalize himself like Moore.

Setting aside the dramatics of his statement (and not taking the prediction too literally), is he right?  How much more information are people willing to share?  Well obviously unlike transistors in a circuit, each person varies significantly in the amount of information they will share.  The more outgoing people who need to put out all the information as possible, and the shut-ins will keep everything to themselves.  But… even the most exclusive of shut-ins I will bet have at least 1 thing on the internet; next year will they have 2?

Note: My wife just leaned over, bravely battling a cold, to change her Facebook status to “… is sick.”  A very fitting interruption to say the least.

I was initially going to try and fight this bold prediction, but I have a feeling it might be spot on.