A government study published last friday has made some startling observations. It turns out that there has been a steady trend for more than 3,000 years of numbers actually getting bigger. In the 1700's, people only spoke about and thought about and used numbers in the hundreds. In the mid 1900's, those numbers reached the millions. The 1980's and 90's brought about the common use of the term "billions," and now we're already in the trillions. There's no telling where this trend will lead or what damage these enormous numbers will cause. Scientists are predicting "quadrillion" to be made popular by the end of the decade and "quintillion" by 2025. It is believed that as long as calculators and screens get wider, these numbers will continue to grow. As for ways to move forward in order to help mitigate the effects of these unstoppable digits, all we can agree on is that no one will agree on anything.
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