This rings True to me. It also represents potentially really good news, because it means that we are probably at the beginning of a huge wave of wealth creatio

This rings True to me. It also represents potentially really good news, because it means that we are probably at the beginning of a huge wave of wealth creation as we figure out how to apply mathematical knowledge to the massive growing mountains of data generated by everyone and everything everywhere. Think about the historical impact that statistical-quality-control software has had in manufacturing, or the impact that economic-forecasting-and-optimization software has had in farming, or the impact that 'linear programming' software has had in supply-chain management and logistics; and then extrapolate these past achievements to get a sense of the potential impact that applications of mathematical knowledge could have in an everyone-connected, everything-networked, everything-measured world. Exciting times.