Did you know?

[Hitchhiker]

(I've put this in Chit Chat because the discussion would more be about the video than the actual website. If mods think otherwise, please move it.)

Anyone else seen this Did You Know? video slideshow?

If you haven't, I encourage you to watch it (you can even watch it on YouTube). The facts and statistics are staggering--not necessarily alarming, but they certainly got me thinking about how the world is rapidly changing. We have moved from a local society to a global village in a few hundred years.

The frightening thing is that we are showing no sign of slowing down�as a species, we are continuing to progress at a geometric level. As a graduating student who is about to enter the "real world" of university, employment, and life as an adult, the idea that careers and our level of information exchange may be radically different in ten years is disconcerting, to say the least.

Food for thought anyhow. Yum. *munch*

[lionhead]

Actually i wasn't surprised at all about those things.

Kinda a shame too becaue once the part came with "Name this country" i came p with China for most of the points(but not all) but then it said "england in 1900" i thought "Yeah, d�h. The British empire was the largest in the world at that time". Only thing that surpsied me where the books.

All i thought at the end of it was "When is it all going to collapse?" and further more "How serious is it going to be?"

[Sam Kenobi]

I thought it was liberal hogwash at first, but later on the facts were quite interesting... I thought it was China too. That's actually pretty frightening... that we'll allow computers to exceed us. Kind of like... Cylons or something. Maybe supercomputer developers should watch BSG and take heed.... ;}