I think historians will look back at the 2000s and call it The Data Decade, and here's why:

–Percentage of U.S. households with a broadband connection in 2000: 6.3%

–Percentage of U.S. households with a broadband connection in 2008: 63%

–Number of e-mails sent per day in 2000: 12 billion

–Number of e-mails sent per day in 2009: 247 billion

–Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2000: $105 million

–Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2009: $19.5 billion

–Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2000: 400,000

–Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2009: 4.5 billion

–Percentage of U.S. households with at least one digital camera in 2000: 10%

–Percentage of U.S. households with at least one digital camera in 2008: 68.4%

–Percentage of U.S. households with at least one MP3 player in 2000: less than 2%

–Percentage of U.S. households with at least one MP3 player in 2008: almost 43%

–Number of pages indexed by Google in 2000: 1 billion

–Number of pages indexed by Google in 2008: 1 trillion

–Number of Google searches per day in 2001: 10 million

–Number of Google searches in 2009: 300 million, estimated

–Number of total Wikipedia entries in 2001: 20,000

–Number of Wikipedia entries in English in 2009: 3.1 million

–Number of blogs in 2000: less than 100,000

–Number of blogs 2008: 133 million

–Minimum free hard-disk space needed to install Windows 2000: 650 megabytes

–Minimum available hard-disk space needed to install Windows 7: 16,000 megabytes (16 gigabytes)

–Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2000: 20 to 30 gigabytes

–Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2009: 2,000 gigabytes (2 terabytes)