Despite Economic Problems, the Noosphere Keeps Expanding

Wired reports:

The financial markets are on the verge of implosion and the economy looks like it's going to hell, but online video is still growing at a ridiculous rate.

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"The cat is out of the bag," says Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail, an online video advertising company. "The networks have accepted that the internet is the future. If ad revenue slows down, I don't think it's going to necessarily hinder their long-term view of the medium. No executive of a major media company who takes their job seriously would say, 'Ad revenue won't keep up with costs, therefore we won't expand online.' This is the time that they need to build a position online."

As more and more of what happens in the world is permanently stored online in an easily retrievable format, a sort of collective memory is growing. Currently, accessing the exact video clip that one wants can still be challenging even if it is online. However, as Google and other major players in this field continue to push forward with new technology at a breakneck pace, that will soon change. The ability to search through our enormous and growing archive of footage with high accuracy using the words people speak in videos or even objects that appear in those videos will be available soon.

And before too long most people's accessories such as phones and glasses will come standard with high definition video cameras embedded in them. Given how much faster wireless Internet access is getting, it won't be long after that that people will be able to get that content online in real time. It's a good thing that storage capacity and its price performance are growing exponentially. This means that, as difficult as it is to believe, we are unlikely to ever run out of space. Thus, we will ultimately have virtually unlimited access to virtually everything that happens in public places where significant numbers of people are present.

Of course we mere humans will only have access to that information when we look for it; however, the coming intelligent cloud will have constant access. It will be almost omniscient and omnipresent. And those are two of the three most common attributes that God is supposed to have.