If you are looking for an interesting web site to read, check out kurzweilai.net. He's a futurist, and has a lot of interesting thoughts about what the future could bring.
One of his observations is that the rate of technological development is exponential. I think this is pretty self evident if you just think about how much new information is being added to the world's knowledge every day. But, an interesting result of an exponential growth in information is an even more exponential growth in the connections that can be made between this information.
A quick demonstration: 2 things can have 1 connection (a line), 3 things can have 3 connections (a triangle), 4 things can have 6 connections (a square with an "x" in the middle), etc.
He crystallizes this point by noting that the number of important connections not made is growing exponentially with time. This means that there are ever more brilliant ideas just lying about waiting from someone to think them.
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Maybe that someone is you!
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