Kurzweill, the premier expert on predicting technological change and how it affects economy has predicted among other things that before 2030 China and India will surpass United States in economic status, due to technological superiority. Culture is changing so fast right now, even paradigms shifts are speeding up exponentially, time is speeding up, and it appears that even the nature of change is speeding up, all fueled by technology, we are all oblivious to this as we all take it for granted, but who 10 years ago would have thought we would all be so dependent on internet for expressing thought patterns and opinions, Kurzweill has stated that identity will become even more dependent on interenet culturally, who knows how much we will all change in next 10 years as technology continues to fuel our culture being more and more entrenched on online communication, consumption, and use... All I know is change is happening so fast right now to us all, and it just seems that it is very hard to notice due to so much going on. I dunno..