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I'd like to think that I had a little something to do with that song-downloading number!

When I go back to watch old computer tv shows I am reminded of how drastically things have changed. Calling the past 20 years the Information Age is woefully inadequate to the scale of how much both PCs and the Internet have escalated our lives for better or for worse. The concept of even 1/1000th the potential of Google in 1990 would have resulted in a HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME response back then.

I don't think they are very fair with the Internet rankings though. Certainly the US is not #1 in the world but... Bermuda? That would be like putting 10mbit broadband on Guam and then calling it the largest broadband penetration in the world. Most certainly I take my connection at home with blessings as compared to say, "broadband" in Mexico. (Hint: Honest to goodness telco monopoly)

>> ^Croccydile:

I don't think they are very fair with the Internet rankings though. Certainly the US is not #1 in the world but... Bermuda? That would be like putting 10mbit broadband on Guam and then calling it the largest broadband penetration in the world. Most certainly I take my connection at home with blessings as compared to say, "broadband" in Mexico. (Hint: Honest to goodness telco monopoly)


Gapminder's data for 2007 also shows Bermuda ahead of the USA for percentage of population online, (not just broadband users), although Greenland was the number 1 that year.

>> ^heathen:
Gapminder's data for 2007 also shows Bermuda ahead of the USA for percentage of population online, (not just broadband users), although Greenland was the number 1 that year.


Ah, whoops, I tried to be clever and include a link with labels on the relevant countries, but it seems Sifty didn't like it being so long.

Hopefully the full link will display below, if not just go to www.gapminder.org/world and select "Open Graph Menu" and then "Who has the most Internet users?"


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Meh, videos like that are cool, but the lack of source for all the numbers makes it kinda hard to believe sometimes.

640K songs ? Really ? Whose numbers are these ? RIAA's ?

Meh. Lots of the "facts" are garbage. "Top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 didn't exist in 2004". Here's a random list of top in-demand jobs I just found. Sure it might not be perfect, but it sounds pretty reasonable:

1. Computer programmer
2. Day care provider
3. Elder care
4. Employment specialist
5. Environmental engineer
6. Home health aide
7. Management consultant
8. Networking specialist
9. Physician's assistant
10. Social services co-ordinator

Other lists I found have random tradespeople, nurses, and other pretty boring jobs that just don't attract enough people to meet growing demand. I've yet to see any job listed that didn't exist in 2004.

Can anyone think of jobs that exist in 2010 (in any kind of number, and without being hyperspecific) that didn't exist in 2004? It's just a stupid fact that someone thought sounded good, so they wrote it somewhere - and 10 copies later here it is in a video.

OK, sorry, just one more because it's so incredibly stupid:

"The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years..."

First off, I think that's unlikely, but even if it's true all it implies is that the amount of information available is growing faster each year. It certainly doesn't imply that:

"[thus] half of what [a student] learns in their first year will be outdated by their third year"

The original fact says nothing about new information replacing old information or about the relationship between new information and the total body of outstanding information. It's also mind-blowingly out of sync with reality. The biology I learned in my first year (and which you might learn in your first year of studying any new biotech program) hasn't changed 50% since the 1960s, let alone in two years. While new information might be being piled on faster and faster, it's being piled onto a tremendous mountain of existing material - and in most ways the new information represents just a polishing of what's already there.

I suppose it doesn't matter.. if the video gives you some sense of wonder or something that's great - but I really hate this kind of rah-rah pseudo-fact crap (and this exact kind of crap is all over in high schools right now, that I see anyway). It fosters an "everything is incredible/incomprehensible" sort of worldview that I see in a lot of very, very stupid people.

What does it all mean? 42 of course!

Wait, MySpace?? What is this.. 2006?

I'm pretty sure this is a dupe of this:
http://videosift.com/video/Did-You-Know-3-0

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FJMJtt8dk

>> ^jmzero:
Can anyone think of jobs that exist in 2010 (in any kind of number, and without being hyperspecific) that didn't exist in 2004? It's just a stupid fact that someone thought sounded good, so they wrote it somewhere - and 10 copies later here it is in a video.
census worker

but yes, most of those statements are highly questionable.
1 billion internet connected device in 2008? seems too low considering all the computers and phones..

And now artifictial life has been created!

I'm looking forward to singularity!

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