By 2015, people will send 26 times more mobile data than they do now, according to Cisco's annual Global Mobile Traffic Forecast. That will mean 6.3 Exabyte's of mobile data gets sent per month. That's the equivalent of every man, woman and child on Earth sending 1,000 text messages every second. Doug Webster, a Cisco vice president says, "By 2017, there will be more than 10 billion mobile-connected devices. That's an average of 1.4 devices for every man, woman, and child on the planet."

Reporting on these stats, the Los Angeles Times article concludes: "The air is almost as thick with data as it once was with the smoke of the Industrial Revolution, with increasingly dense billows of bits traveling between the world's billions of mobile devices."

Possible Preaching Angle: (1) Relationships; Friendship; Communication; Words—We're definitely sending a lot of data back and forth. As the LA Times reports, the air is thick with our data. But are we truly communicating with each other? Are we speaking words that give blessing and life? Are we communicating in a way that promotes friendship, intimacy, and community?