"Information is doubling faster all the time. It took from the time of Jesus
to the time of Leonardo for one doubling of knowledge. The next doubling
of knowledge was completed before the American Revolution, the next
one by 1900, the next one by 1950, the next one by 1960. You see how
[it keeps] moving faster? Now knowledge is doubling every eighteen
months."

"With all these new bits, bytes, blips of information, no model can last
long because models only include the bytes of information that were
available when the model was made. As new bytes of information come in
it gets harder and harder to adjust our old models to include the new blips
and beeps of information, so we've got to make new models."

- Robert Anton Wilson, http://tinyurl.com/ocvorz