The Most Important Technology Trend Of 2014, According to Mary Meeker

Every year, the entire technology industry stops whatever it’s doing for an hour to hear what influential analyst Mary Meeker thinks are the most important trends playing out on the internet.
Meeker, who’s now with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, presented this year’s version at the Code Conference Wednesday morning. You can check out all 164 slides of it here. While she covered shifts underway in media consumption, education, healthcare, commerce, security and a host of other areas, she singled out one trend as the “biggest reimagination of all”: the way we’re creating oceans of new data with the mobile devices and other sensors we carry around with us.
The number of “microelectromechanical systems” — a designation that includes sensors and other components in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets — shipped every year has increased more than sixfold over the last five years.