Shift Happens - Globalization And The Information Age
written by John Chow on February 27th, 2007
This video was created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod. Shift Happens - Globalization and The Information Age. The stats starts interestingly enough but then it just got way out there. Like a computer with more computational power than the human brain by 2013. I thought we achieved that years ago! Of course, that was based on some of the girls I’ve dated. 
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whoa…blew my socks right off.
Reply to this commentTotally agree! That was really eye opening!!
Reply to this commentNo effect here.. seen this before!
Reply to this commentWhat does it all mean? Man will soon be obsolete.
Reply to this commentIt means faster blue screens of death.
Reply to this commentJust sat through the whole thing. Crazy. Scary.
Reply to this commentumm . . that was kind of disturbing . . the day will come when we just have to plug in to start our day
Reply to this commentwow thats all i can say
Reply to this commenthaha…plug in. Like the Matrix or something. btw…i know you’re joking michael..but man will never be obsolete.
some things change…others stay the same.
check out my post about the CEO of Time Warner for more about this.
Reply to this commentHehe…I wonder if those stats would have the same impact without that “moving” soundtrack!
My other favorite stat is “what’s the population of china? 1.3billion? 1.5billion? Either way, America is just a rounding error!”
And how did we find out what others were eating for dinner P.J.C (pre-John Chow)?
Kumiko
Reply to this commentxo
We’ll all be dead first. No worries!
Reply to this commenti’ve been supporting and pitching this theory of exponential expansion all along. sharing of information is amazing..
the network makes us larger than the sum of us all, if that makes any sense.
Reply to this commentVery interesting video…some amazing stats!
Reply to this commentDoes anyone else keep reading the title as Shit Happens - …?
Reply to this commentYup. I do haha
Reply to this commentHeh I did that three times
Reply to this commentMe too - I had to read it twice!
Reply to this commentMmmm what does that say, maybe Matrix can happen
Reply to this commentThat’s about what it sais. But what do we know, we might already be en matrix
Reply to this commentdun dun dun…!!!
Reply to this commentThose are some amazing stats. I do agree that if you read them all in a book without an emotionally building soundtrack, they would lose some impact. But hey, bravo to the producer - I’m going to put it on my site because it grips your attention.
Reply to this commentVery interesting movie. But what I don’t get is how a computer can exceed the computational abilities of the human race. It isn’t possible.
Reply to this commentI’m fascinated that we’ve estimated the computational ability of the human mind precise. Last time i check, we had’nt.
I am very, very sceptical to this movie, as Mark Twain said;
“There’s three kinds of lies.. lies, damn lies and statistics!”
Dont trust all the facts thrown at you!
Reply to this commentHoly crap…
But seriously. There’s a difference between computational power & the ability to pass judgement.
David Wilkinson
Reply to this commenthttp://www.techzi.net/
Facts & Figures, numbers, numbers and more numbers. Interesting knowledge, yet I wonder how he ‘obtain’ those digits. Amazing, yet unbelievable at the same time.
Reply to this commentYawns.. the presentation was a little monotonous though.
That’s it!!! I’m moving to MySpace!
Reply to this commentThe way it looked in the beginning,I would have thought this would’ve been a straight bashing America video, thankfully it didn’t go that way.
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