If you feel you are suffering from information overload, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of Google, has a warning: there is more on the way.
Mr Schmidt said the technological barrier that the industry previously thought would curb the internet no longer existed, rendering the Web a "limitless" pool of information.
"It's going to get even more unmanageable in three or four years," he added. "Trust me, we can connect devices to your shoes, your watch, all the things you want to do with your internet - When you get all that information in one place, you have this powerful network, 'cloud computing' and the mobile device, [and] magic ensues. And that is, fundamentally, the future of technology."
In a keynote speech at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit yesterday, Mr Schmidt responded to concerns about who controls all the data the internet giant has accumulated.
"Who else would you want to control all that information?" he said, and insisted the company was careful about how it used such information.
He added that Google had a strong financial incentive not to violate customers' trust.
"Competitors would win and we would lose. That's a high incentive to maintain trust."
He also revealed there were some businesses the company shied away from. "We thought about predicting the stock market. But we decided that that was illegal."
Mr Schmidt said future innovations for Google included real-time voice and text translation. He also predicted that in the next three years, a billion more people would be able to access the Web, largely through mobile phones.
And he said the continued rise in the popularity of the online world would present an opportunity for Google as more internet users tapped into its technology.
Mr Schmidt told summit delegates that all media companies should adopt an "internet first" strategy.
"If you're a famous producer, you'll build a show on the internet first and see how well it does. Think of the internet as an opportunity to reach people in a low-cost way. It's not going to replace existing models, movies or television."
Reaction to Mr Schmidt's comments was enthusiastic.
Mohammed al Ghanim, the director general of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, said the number of connections to devices would at least triple in the coming years as more homes and cars hooked up online.
"I really don't think anyone can quantify the amount of information that is going to be available in the future," Mr al Ghanim said. "It's going to be a lot."
Businesses stand to reap the rewards of such expansion. With more devices connected to the Web, companies would see an extraordinary shift of resources and revenues to the internet and mobile devices, said Amar Goel, the founder and chief executive of Komli, the leading online advertising platform in India.
"The media tends to be about where people are spending their time, and that's where marketers want to be," said Mr Goel.
Following his keynote address, Mr Schmidt praised the Vevo website, an online music video venture that Google and the Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) run. ADMC is the owner and publisher of The National.
"It looks like [Vevo] is going to become a significant part of the internet," Mr Schmidt said. "It seems to be part of the answer to what the music industry's problems have been [online]."
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Attacks on Egypt’s long rooted Copts
Egypt’s Copts belong to one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, with Mark the Evangelist credited with founding their church around 300 AD. Orthodox Christians account for the overwhelming majority of Christians in Egypt, with the rest mainly made up of Greek Orthodox, Catholics and Anglicans.
The community accounts for some 10 per cent of Egypt’s 100 million people, with the largest concentrations of Christians found in Cairo, Alexandria and the provinces of Minya and Assiut south of Cairo.
Egypt’s Christians have had a somewhat turbulent history in the Muslim majority Arab nation, with the community occasionally suffering outright persecution but generally living in peace with their Muslim compatriots. But radical Muslims who have first emerged in the 1970s have whipped up anti-Christian sentiments, something that has, in turn, led to an upsurge in attacks against their places of worship, church-linked facilities as well as their businesses and homes.
More recently, ISIS has vowed to go after the Christians, claiming responsibility for a series of attacks against churches packed with worshippers starting December 2016.
The discrimination many Christians complain about and the shift towards religious conservatism by many Egyptian Muslims over the last 50 years have forced hundreds of thousands of Christians to migrate, starting new lives in growing communities in places as far afield as Australia, Canada and the United States.
Here is a look at major attacks against Egypt's Coptic Christians in recent years:
November 2: Masked gunmen riding pickup trucks opened fire on three buses carrying pilgrims to the remote desert monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor south of Cairo, killing 7 and wounding about 20. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 26, 2017: Masked militants riding in three all-terrain cars open fire on a bus carrying pilgrims on their way to the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor, killing 29 and wounding 22. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 2017: Twin attacks by suicide bombers hit churches in the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta city of Tanta. At least 43 people are killed and scores of worshippers injured in the Palm Sunday attack, which narrowly missed a ceremony presided over by Pope Tawadros II, spiritual leader of Egypt Orthodox Copts, in Alexandria's St. Mark's Cathedral. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.
February 2017: Hundreds of Egyptian Christians flee their homes in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, fearing attacks by ISIS. The group's North Sinai affiliate had killed at least seven Coptic Christians in the restive peninsula in less than a month.
December 2016: A bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral in Cairo kills 30 people and wounds dozens during Sunday Mass in one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory. ISIS claimed responsibility.
July 2016: Pope Tawadros II says that since 2013 there were 37 sectarian attacks on Christians in Egypt, nearly one incident a month. A Muslim mob stabs to death a 27-year-old Coptic Christian man, Fam Khalaf, in the central city of Minya over a personal feud.
May 2016: A Muslim mob ransacks and torches seven Christian homes in Minya after rumours spread that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman. The elderly mother of the Christian man was stripped naked and dragged through a street by the mob.
New Year's Eve 2011: A bomb explodes in a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria as worshippers leave after a midnight mass, killing more than 20 people.