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. 
Source: The Coming Crisis
Did you enjoy this post? Get John Chow Dot Com updates via email...
Stay up to date with all of John Chow’s tips for making money online and blog posts by subscribing via email. Your email will be kept private and never shared with anyone.
One of the most common complaint (or excuse) I hear from potential new bloggers is they don’t know how to install WordPress. Terms like FTP and CPanel are like a foreign language and setting up a database might as well be setting up the space shuttle for a launch. Because of the technology barrier, many would-be bloggers never start their blogs...
{ 27 comments }
whoa…blew my socks right off.
Totally agree! That was really eye opening!!
No effect here.. seen this before!
What does it all mean? Man will soon be obsolete.
It means faster blue screens of death.
Just sat through the whole thing. Crazy. Scary.
umm . . that was kind of disturbing . . the day will come when we just have to plug in to start our day
wow thats all i can say
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.
Hehe…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
xo
We’ll all be dead first. No worries!
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.
Very interesting video…some amazing stats!
Does anyone else keep reading the title as Shit Happens – …?
Yup. I do haha
Heh I did that three times
Me too – I had to read it twice!
Mmmm what does that say, maybe Matrix can happen
That’s about what it sais. But what do we know, we might already be en matrix
dun dun dun…!!!
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.
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.
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!
Holy crap…
But seriously. There’s a difference between computational power & the ability to pass judgement.
David Wilkinson
http://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.
Yawns.. the presentation was a little monotonous though.
That’s it!!! I’m moving to MySpace!
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.