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Shift Happens – Globalization And The Information Age

written by John Chow on February 27, 2007

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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. :mrgreen:

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{ 27 comments }

Bryan Baker February 27, 2007 at 2:32 pm

whoa…blew my socks right off.

Saman Sadeghi February 28, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Totally agree! That was really eye opening!!

ilker March 1, 2007 at 4:21 am

No effect here.. seen this before!

Michael Kwan February 27, 2007 at 2:36 pm

What does it all mean? Man will soon be obsolete. :lol:

BlueFur.com February 27, 2007 at 3:13 pm

It means faster blue screens of death.

Paul February 27, 2007 at 2:54 pm

Just sat through the whole thing. Crazy. Scary.

Gary February 27, 2007 at 3:02 pm

umm . . that was kind of disturbing . . the day will come when we just have to plug in to start our day

Matt February 27, 2007 at 3:03 pm

wow thats all i can say

Bryan Baker February 27, 2007 at 3:05 pm

haha…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.

Kumiko February 27, 2007 at 4:18 pm

Hehe…I wonder if those stats would have the same impact without that “moving” soundtrack! :smile:

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
xo

Doug Karr February 27, 2007 at 4:27 pm

We’ll all be dead first. No worries! :???:

Jeff February 27, 2007 at 4:57 pm

i’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.

Gdog February 27, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Very interesting video…some amazing stats!

Tyler February 27, 2007 at 6:02 pm

Does anyone else keep reading the title as Shit Happens – …?

Jeff February 27, 2007 at 6:15 pm

Yup. I do haha

Kalle February 28, 2007 at 10:50 am

Heh I did that three times :D

Saman Sadeghi February 28, 2007 at 12:23 pm

Me too – I had to read it twice!

Ajith February 27, 2007 at 6:59 pm

Mmmm what does that say, maybe Matrix can happen :idea:

Kalle February 28, 2007 at 10:47 am

That’s about what it sais. But what do we know, we might already be en matrix :roll:

Jeff Kee March 6, 2007 at 1:24 pm

dun dun dun…!!!

Lynch February 28, 2007 at 2:26 am

Those 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.

Kalle February 28, 2007 at 7:16 am

Very 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.

Gustav Mörtberg February 28, 2007 at 10:27 am

I’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!

David Wilkinson February 28, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Holy crap…

But seriously. There’s a difference between computational power & the ability to pass judgement.

David Wilkinson
http://www.techzi.net/

lyndonmaxewell March 1, 2007 at 5:59 am

Facts & Figures, numbers, numbers and more numbers. Interesting knowledge, yet I wonder how he ‘obtain’ those digits. Amazing, yet unbelievable at the same time.
Yawns.. the presentation was a little monotonous though.

derrich March 1, 2007 at 11:29 am

That’s it!!! I’m moving to MySpace!

Stuart March 3, 2007 at 1:57 pm

The 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.