My first car had a manual choke. It would change the ratio of air and fuel to allow the engine to start - you would pull it when starting the engine cold, wait a bit and then set it back. The car had many other peculiarities - a manual transmission (of course), no power steering, and the engine had a tendency to overheat in the summer - or, if going uphill, year-round.

It’s crazy to imagine that by 2020, every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of data each second! The days of slow communication and occasional snail mail are long over. We generate data without thinking about it - using apps, paying with credit cards, and even shopping online for groceries. It’s no secret that companies use this data to improve our customer experience and gain insights for strategic business decisions. Well, that’s what they should be doing anyway.