It’s not easy to measure the actual volume of the universe. And relating to the discussion about “grades gotta go”, the expanding universe can, by definition, not be the same as the one anyone of us learnt in school in the yestermillennium, or even yesterday.

What can be measured, at least by proxy, is the world of any. And this just in – recent estimates suggest that the internet doubles in size in less than a year now! Of course, a lot of the things that enter this beautiful world of any are totally new things that most people are still not aware of. So, let’s divide that number in half. That would still mean that all the things you coveted last year are now 50 percent more available!

I put that theory to an immediate test.  I googled “online dating”, a favorite subject that I wrote about in the book, which now celebrates its one-year anniversary:

Online dating 2008: 22 million hits

Online dating 2009: 34 million hits

Did you marry last year and have recently come down from the happiness bump in the road? No worries, your chances of finding a new Mr Wonderful or Ms Right have expanded by 55 percent since then!

(And who would even think about storing all this knowledge? No student, teacher or professor in the Expectations society could expect that today’s knowledge is better than tomorrow’s. Probably not even half as good…)