Good stuff.
Thanks, I liked that a lot. This will blow your mind too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200914/posts
Just wow... thanks for the link!
Fascinating.
Marking to show my children tomorrow. Their latest interest is making videos (more specifically stop motion videos) on the computer. And that video was very well done.
Well, the song is ten years old! Let’s all read Homer.
MOST eye-opening stats:
Half of what you learn during your first year of a technical degree will be obsolete before the end of your third year of that study.
There are 5 times more words in the English language today than 400 years ago.
A new fiber optic cable can transfer the equivalent of 2,660 CDs every second—that capacity is TRIPLING every 6 months.
10 years ago, I was storing documents on $10, 100mb Zip discs the size of a coaster.
TODAY I can store them on a $10, 2gb SD card the size of a postage stamp.
In 10 years...???
This is amazing. This is also very SCARY.
quite uplifting— well for me anyways...
i did read recently that data is doubling every 9 months now...makes you really begin to understand why super fast broadband is now a must have...
I just passed 31 years at my job. Started out as a main frame Cobol programmer and now my job includes support of all the remote laptops and blackberries plus a bunch of automated spread sheets some PowerBuilder programs, Citrix server management, etc.
I remember early on, one of my co-workers said to me, "I will only work on a Unisys programming in Cobol". I decided I would try to learn the new technologies as they came aboard.
It is almost impossible to keep up and you just can't change technology as fast as you would like. I have scripts that run overnight that 10 years ago took 6-8 hours and today take 20 minutes on a slow night.
I am writing this on my new netbook. Yes embrace the new always, even if you sometimes have to deal with the old at the same time.
I hate firewalls bump
A mix of facts and non-facts presented like facts (and also guesses that are close to lies) that utilizes the synchronization of images, beat and music to shut-off questioning of the narrative.
The quoted figures for births in India and China are guesses close to lies. I suspect the figure for music downloads is also a guess, but closer to a real fact. What one learns today as a freshman will not be obsolete by the senior year of graduation. New technologies and techniques do not except rarely obsolete the old. New things are made up of old things arranged in new ways, or presented in new ways, with almost nothing that hasn’t been known in some way before.
What is the whyfor of this video propaganda? To raise fear so that college tech programs will get more money? Likely. To encourage federal stimulus pouring into tech-academ? Yep. To reinforce “hire the recent graduate” and fire him in two years for being obsolete? Likely. (That cause the grads to borrow another 20K for another degree).
Sick. Unrealistic. Adds to the problem.
Delight, not fear best drives technical and science excellence.