Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman, remixed. I actually thought I posted this video previously, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Even if I did, it’s worth taking another look.
The concept of the video is to throw out statistics at you which are shocking, enlightening, or just plain make you think. For example:
- If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 of you.
- The number of text messages sent daily exceeds the population of Earth.
- By 2013 supercomputers will be more powerful than the human brain.
So, what are we to make of all this?
Thanks to Mike Mitchell for sending this vid my way!
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Great video about science progress and internet development. I insert this video to my blog in last post, thank you for interest publication!
The stats are really unbelievable. The world is going at a very fast pace. We need to slow down a wee bit and breathe a bit.
There is definitely an exponential growth curve here, and it is only a matter of time before machine is far superior to man…..hmmm, the possibilities are mind boggling, but I don’t quite foresee a Terminator type apocalyptic scenario unfolding!
Wow, this sounds scary!
It’s funny—I thought I saw this video on your blog a few months ago, but now I can’t find it—Feels like deja vu.
Yeah Aaron, I know what you mean. I could have sworn I posted it before, but I couldn’t find it either!
John
that video was pretty cool lol.