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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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Stuart

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.

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derrich

That's it!!! I'm moving to MySpace!

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lyndonmaxewell

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.

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David Wilkinson

Holy crap...

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

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

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Kalle

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.

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Gustav Mörtberg

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!

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Lynch

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.

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Ajith

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

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Kalle

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

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Tyler

Does anyone else keep reading the title as Shit Happens - ...?

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Kalle

Heh I did that three times :D

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Saman Sadeghi

Me too - I had to read it twice!

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Gdog

Very interesting video...some amazing stats!

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Jeff

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.

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Doug Karr

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

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Kumiko

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

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Bryan Baker

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.

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Gary

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

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Paul

Just sat through the whole thing. Crazy. Scary.

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Michael Kwan

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

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BlueFur.com

It means faster blue screens of death.

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Bryan Baker

whoa...blew my socks right off.

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Saman Sadeghi

Totally agree! That was really eye opening!!

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ilker

No effect here.. seen this before!

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