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Post by andrewh on Mar 24, 2011 12:25:40 GMT -5
This video was one of the many reminders of how small my perspective is in such a huge world. One of the facts that had impact on me was that in Shakespeare's time the english language had around 5 times as many words as it does today. Wow! I imagine how much more unique and meaningful every word was, and how much more Elizabethans could have expressed themselves. As our vocabulary decreases, so does our power with words and we head towards an Orwellian society where we cannot express ourselves meaningfully. I am also not surprised but shaken by the fact that "one out of eight married couples met online-this combined with the fact that myspace makes up the world's 5th largest country demonstrates how we are losing our connection to the real world, and going into the digital world. I already feel the distanced nature of online relationships, and how the cherished joys of the natural world are diminished by digital eye candy. These little facts have incredible power, and bring up dark parts of the universe.
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Post by andrewh on Mar 24, 2011 12:27:01 GMT -5
This video was one of the many reminders of how small my perspective is in such a huge world. One of the facts that had impact on me was that in Shakespeare's time the english language had around 5 times as many words as it does today. Wow! I imagine how much more unique and meaningful every word was, and how much more Elizabethans could have expressed themselves. As our vocabulary decreases, so does our power with words and we head towards an Orwellian society where we cannot express ourselves meaningfully. I am also not surprised but shaken by the fact that "one out of eight married couples met online-this combined with the fact that myspace makes up the world's 5th largest country demonstrates how we are losing our connection to the real world, and going into the digital world. I already feel the distanced nature of online relationships, and how the cherished joys of the natural world are diminished by digital eye candy. These little facts have incredible power, and bring up dark parts of the universe.
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Post by nathanf on Mar 24, 2011 14:13:28 GMT -5
One thing in the video that I think will have a big impact on my life is that "It is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century". This is important because nowadays people have access to more information, so everyone is smarter and better informed about stuff. However, a downside to all the information is that one cannot possibly know all of it, so you have to pick and choose. "The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000. In 1992: 1,000,000. In 2008: 1,000,000,000" is another important fact in the video. The internet is a really great tool, and life would be a lot harder without it. It also contributes to all the information out there. A third important thing is that "During the course of this presentation (5 minutes) 67 babies were born in the US, 274 in China, and 395 in India". The population is increasing exponentially, and overpopulation will become a bigger and bigger issue as resources become stressed. Combined with Climate Change, which will create instability and swallow up land, this could lead to massive refugee crises.
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Post by steveh on Mar 24, 2011 16:44:12 GMT -5
This video is good but in my opinion some of it is BS. The fact about training us for jobs that don't exist yet has always been a practice. Its not like its a new idea. People that make the money are the ones that were prepared for something before it happens. And "with technology that doesn't yet exist"? Do they mean training us "with" or training us "to use". Because logically you can't train some one using something that doesn't exist yet, no one knows how it works yet. And JH is correct, a huuuge amount of those myspace accounts are offline. And while India may have many honors kids there concept of honors may be different and our best trained students's education is steal lightyears ahead of anything they are being taught or taught with. My final point is the point about Shakespeare having one fifth as many words as we do now is obvious. Its been 500 odd years since Shakespeare and globalization with the internet has been achieved since than. Oh and one more: computers will only have access to information that we speak or write down. And the sheer space and cost of such a computer that could be so powerful would be unreasonable and almost unusable.
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Post by Walter Y on Mar 25, 2011 17:28:28 GMT -5
The fact that was most influential me is the one about how the 25% of India's population with the highest IQ outnumbers the total number of people in the US. It shows that even if the US is highly developed, it still needs to work hard or else it will have a hard time competing against other countries in the future. it also surprises me that the New York Times contains more information than what the average person in the 18th would come across in their lifetime. I also found how much information they said would be generated this year: 4 exabytes is an incredibly large amount of information. It makes me wonder at how fast the world is moving nowadays and what the future will hold for the species Homo Sapiens.
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Post by ryans on Mar 26, 2011 14:00:10 GMT -5
I found several interesting points in this video. Some were not as surprising as the video wants us to believe like how there are more honors kids in India than there are kids in the US. India's population is almost 4 times as big as the US and the Indian youth are a large bulk of their population. Furthermore, because of the conditions they face, there is more of an urge to succeed...but I digress, now onto the prompt. One figure from the video, "The US Department of Labor estimate's that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age 38." I can definitely see this as a possibility. I've been hired for 3 petty jobs so far and I know that that number will increase. But it also means that I will have to prepare and study for what is likely to be a range of situations I will have to face early on. Yay education! Another quote, "1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year met online," this is actually a smaller percentage than eHarmony indicates, 1 out 6, but I'm assuming they have some bias. Anyways, this shows that while I may not meet "the one" online, the internet is becoming. The most interesting quote I found was that "The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years...For students starting a 4-year technical degree this means that...half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study." With all this new information being generated people with more advanced degrees and jobs will face heavy competition from newer youth. With the population becoming so huge this would only add. However, more jobs and more wealth are being generated and hopefully this competition will drive humanity to where it has never gone before.
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Post by hannahh on Mar 26, 2011 14:11:24 GMT -5
I was blown away when i saw "it is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century". this shows how incredibly important and useful our newspapers are. obviously in the 18th century people would go about their days in one place, and have no clue that there was a war or natural disaster 200 miles away from them, like we can find out about today. also i was amazed when it said"for students that are starting a 4 year technical degree this means that... half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study". the text books that we learn with today in school use up thousands of paper. but the realization is in only 3 or 4 years all of that information will be out of date and maybe even incorrect. this brings up the problem of how information should be taught. also this video brought up the use of internet many times. i always was aware of the fact of how much the internet is a part of every day life to the whole world. but seeing all the facts so detailed scared me! the amount of people that use myspace could be enough for a large country? or the audience of facebook to reach 1 million only took 2 years? and the thing is, internet is only going to become more and be a bigger part of everyone's lives in the future.
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Post by jackl on Mar 26, 2011 17:04:54 GMT -5
This video really fascinates me but scares me at the same time. To know that the world around me is evolving so fast, to see technology advancing so fast, and to see populations grow so fast was insane. The facts that stuck the most out for me was:
"India has more honors kids than America has kids." For me this showed that America is in decline or at least doesn't have the brain power that countries in other parts of the world are developing. I think this will affect me because I live in America and when other countries began to surpass us, it will be our generation's responsibility to make America the best it can be. "It is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 16th century." This shocked me because it showed me how fast ideas spread these days. This is important because movements and thoughts could reach multitudes of people the day their published. It's almost like the Renaissance is happening every day today with the speed ideas move at. This is important to me because this shows how fast ideas could get to me and influence me and how fast my ideas can reach people. The other thing that really surprised me (and I have heard before thanks to Newsweek) was that by 2013 a computer will be made that surpasses one human and by 2049 one that surpasses all humans. This really shocked me. Could humans build a computer than can surpass millions of years of evolution? This affects me because what could this new technology do? Could it backfire on us or could it be super helpful. At the same time I was confused by what they meant by "computational capabilities." Does that mean it will be more intelligent than us or just able to hold more information and "spit it back out" faster than us? In conclusion this video really shocked me.
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Post by nateb on Mar 27, 2011 9:46:53 GMT -5
This video was very interesting. One of the facts that stood out to me was that China will soon become the largest English speaking country in the world. This fact shows how different people are moving out (English speakers to China), and how people are moving in (Non-English speakers moving to the U.S.). Another fact that shocked me was that if MySpace was a country, then it would be the fifth largest in the world. This shows just how many people are online and connected to the internet. I,personally, do not think that this is a good thing. If people spend all of their time online, whether it's to communicate with friends are to just goof around, then they will not have the chance to communicate differently, and be exposed to the outside world. This video is very interesting, and I thin we should have more videos like this one.
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Post by caitlainm on Mar 27, 2011 9:52:41 GMT -5
There were many facts in this video that took me by surprise but when it said, "the top ten jobs in demand in 2010...did not exist in 2004." I find that very shocking because it shows how quickly how society is advancing, and it feels unbelievable that so much could happen in such a short amount of time. A fact that also stuck out to me was, " The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years... And for students starting a four year technical degree this means that... half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study." This was mind-blowing to me because half of what you will learn will not even be used or relevant by the third year of study. It is also showing how fast how society is moving. These two facts will have a huge impact on all of the people growing up today. The information that we are going to or are learning is going to become outdated, and we will have to learn how to adjust to the new, quicker, environment that we are living today. As people are advancing studies and finding more efficient ways to do things our generation is going to need to learn how to adapt to the quickly changing work world. The last fact that really struck out to me was, "It is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime of the 16th century." This is shocking to read because I cannot imagine all of the major events of one week to become the major events of my lifetime. In my opinion, a lot happens each week, but I cannot imagine anything less than that. I would not be able to imagine living without many different newsworthy things at the same time, having the events of one week today be my entire life is hard to imagine.
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Post by brandonb on Mar 27, 2011 11:26:45 GMT -5
To be honest, that was probably one of the most productive 5 minutes and 16 seconds of, quite possibly, my life. About 90% of the information presented on that video was new to me and a 110% of it was mind boggling. In the beginning i was thinking to myself, "another video about china and its massive population... great" but then it just hit me with the fact that India has more honors kids than America even has kids. Of course i have to disagree with Nikita because India has the second largest population in the world and has been around much much longer than America so it is only statistically reasonable that India has, on average, more honors kids. That also goes for China and their ever-so-growing population. Also a little side note, and no offense to all of the Europeans out there, I found it quite interesting and a it curious that absolutely nothing was mentioned about Europe. I'm just saying... I mean I'm sure that a lot of the stats given also applied to Europe but it seemed like China, India, Japan, and America was gaining the spotlight. Some of the ideas presented in this video that would have an impact on my life, would have to be, that the top ten highest demanded jobs of 2010 never even existed in 2004. What would that mean in the future? It seems an awful like maybe the jobs we are considering now will probably become useless or already taken care of by the time we "learners" are "intellectually capable". This brings me to my next idea, which is the fact that the average $1000 computer in 2049 will be have more intellectual capacity than the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE!!! That was seriously like an OMG moment... Anyway, if computers are really going to be that smart, it scares me to think that they might take over a lot of jobs and eventually end up taking over the- well you've seen the movies right? I could go on like this for another 4 paragraphs but basically, my point is that pretty much all of that information will apply to our everyday lives and that we, as humans, should be more aware.
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Post by Ian G on Mar 27, 2011 11:43:43 GMT -5
For me, the entire video impacted me in one way or another. However, there were 2 specific statistics that really made me think. The first being at :42, it said. "Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids." This was so difficult for me to wrap my head around. So I started by thinking about South. South has around 2,000 kids, North has around the same. Then the 4 middle schools with about 600 kids in each. And lastly the 15 elementary schools with an average of 350 kids. I did the math and the average number of students(k-12) in the Newton Public School System is 11,650. Now, I understand that Newton is a big city with a lot of schools. But this puts everything in perspective. India's has many many more children and the number of Honors students is greater than the number of kids in America. The second fact that I thought was interesting is at 4:39 "During this presentation...395 babies were born in India." This fact made me think because every 5 minutes, 400 babies are born in India. So what I gathered from this video is not only that India is very over populated and is a very smart country, but also that our world is growing SO much every 5 minutes. And compared to all the information out there we are only learning a small portion of it.
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Post by arelicg on Mar 27, 2011 13:35:35 GMT -5
Wow, this video really amazed me. While I was watching I noticed that there are many things that this video showed that will impact my life. One of them is being how much the amount of technology is increasing by. I think it is amazing how it is doubling every 2 years. Another thing that will impact my life that was shown in this video, is how much Google is used. It really got me thinking about how people got their questions answered when Google wasn't around. Nowadays, pretty much everyone uses Google, and for different purposes too. Something else that amazed me was how in 2013 there will be a supercomputer that is smarter than a human brain. Its incredible how much technology we use everyday in our lives. This video has really made me think about the kind of world that we are living in today.
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Post by celinas on Mar 27, 2011 14:56:37 GMT -5
This whole video was a little bit scary... It feels like we as a species are kind of developing TOO quickly for our own good. The amount of information we have access too, as well as the amount of information we generate through texting, blogging, and other forms on electronic communication, is mind-blowing. One fact that sort of backed this up was the bit about how the top-ten jobs in demand in 2010 didn't actually exist in 2004. This just kind of shows how quickly the human race is developing; we are going so quickly that we have created completely new yet incredibly important jobs in a matter of years. Another fact that really made me think was the one about how one out of every eight couples married in 2008 met online. This just shows how much people communicate online, and seems as though it might be a sign of things to come - the fact that a technology that was only really introduced a couple of decades ago is now helping one out of every eight couples get married could suggest that as time goes on, people will become more and more reliant on the internet as a main means of communication. Like a lot of that video showed, the internet is already a HUGE part of most people's lives (including mine), so the idea that it could become even more central is a little bit scary. Like I said, this video really made me think about the rate that the human race is developing at, and made me wonder whether or not that speed is a good thing or not... Like Nikita said, the fact that we could someday be second-best to one of our own creations, the computer, is something to be wary of.
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Post by dylanc on Mar 27, 2011 15:18:06 GMT -5
This video was interesting, while also filled with somewhat scary information. While the main theme seemed to be technology, it was more communication. The fact that will impact my life the most is the one about the number of babies being born around the world. The population of the world is quickly growing, and this will make technology (again) even more important, while still causing resource problems. The growing population will cause many problems in the future, but the technology will help us to organize, communicate, and work together. Also, around 3 minutes, twelve seconds, they say that there were five times as many words during Shakespeare's time than now, but in class, you said that there were only 60% of the words we have today. Just wondering.
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