Shift Happens - Did You Know

it's surprising that they miss out stuffs about the environment. isn't that much more impt at this point of time?

It does happen. And soon It will come to me... I got the feeling but I hope I'm wrong XD

this post has left me in a state called "unable to speak" aka "Speechless".

Very interesting~! X3

Badass!

Interesting stuff to know of..... God knows we will be living with robots next time? 3D robots with anime face lol!

LOL, songs illegally downloaded during the presentaion.

Interesting to know!

And Tintin-san, this is Ruishen! I think we took Japanese 1 together ^_^.

So What Does It All Mean?

Very interesting. I learned about exponential growth before.

Some futurists believe this will lead to a technological singularity of sort, artificial intelligence being self aware, self sufficient, and exceeding human intelligence.

Who knows?

Anyways, the US prides itself in being number one. Currently we are #3 in population less than a third compared to India and China who are over 1 billion! Come on people! Start making babies! (>OO)> USA! USA!

Kind of scared me..no left me in awe at the human race :)

Yeah like WiseFreeman said. What does it all mean?
Does this mean all the stuff I'm learning at school is for 50% useless in my third year ToT lol?!?

Many interesting stats. Though most of it isn't very mind-blowing, considering the advancements in technology and how closely tied the world is today.

I think one important idea to take from this is that we must educate people more in the history of science and technology, otherwise I fear we will reach a point of over-dependency on technology that no one understands. And that is a dangerous spot to be in. Otherwise we'll see cults growing up around supercomputers, machines planning out people's fates, and other terrible ideas that may sound ludicrous to us, but could actually happen.

:Saving this: Educational video, thanks for the link:)

O_O

that was amusing

"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half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
--> I didn't do well for my first semester ^^;"

lucky for me everything i learned in my first semester is crap and contains nothing i need to use in life

Great video! Kind of inspiring in a way.

taht was interesting, i'd like to have a computer that it better than the entire human race lol

Great video. I knew a lot of it, but it was still interesting to have them compiled and put together like that.

Technology does move fast, but that doesn't mean that everything runs on the latest and greatest. How many computers in the US still run Windows XP, Windows 2000 or even Windows 98? How many people have television sets over 10 years old in their homes? How many of you have a console they no longer make games for (and still play it)?

My point is that new technology is a n+1 to existing technology, not a complete replacement (at least not right away). People only adapt to the new stuff if it is clearly superior to what they have, is cheaper and easily adopted. Very few products fit those criteria. And there are more evolutionary dead ends than breakthroughs.

Brain implosion.

India can make moar babies!

I kind of wonder if these futurists have any idea about what goes on in the research for the computing industry. There are physical limitations to what we can come up with as far as computing goes. While I'm not saying progress is going to halt, some of the stuff there was just ridiculous.

As a former computer science major back between 2002 and 2006...yeah the stuff I learned in college is practically worthless now. Wish they told me that before the student loans were sent out ~_~

those were some interesting facts. best one was "if you live in China and youre one in a million, then tehre are 1,3K just like you" :D

694,000 illegal songs downloaded. ^_^ That totally cracked me up! When they said something about a 4 year degree some of those things would be outdatd. Makes me wonder if I should continue dreaming of a computer engineer or something...?

A computer that it better than the entire human race, and soon after the computer will overthrow humanity, all hail Skynet!!!!

outdated degrees?
how true - my entire course that i just passed last semester is already outdated. Ver 4.0 of the CCNA course came out and most (if not all) things i learnt are outdated too.

hell, i think most of those stats we saw are now probably outdated too!

Very cool. It does make ya think. Alot.

Much of the increased power of computing shown here was first stated by Intel co-founder Gorden Moore way back in 1965. Moore's Law states that number of transistors placed on a single integrated circuit doubles roughly every six months. This sort of exponential growth is sort of scary, mostly because we aren't used to thinking in such terms. The classic example is the frog pond problem: If the number of frogs in a pond doubles every day, and the pond becomes overpopulated after thirty days, when was the pond only half full of frogs? The answer is surprising if you haven't carefully thought it out: Twenty-nine days. The point is that with this sort of growth, change can happen blindingly fast. Change itself is not bad, but I sometimes wonder about the growing feelings of personal isolation when confronted by this tsunami of information.

The 31 billion Google searches interests me a lot there... especially comparing to tenrou's post: http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/12918/Google+and+the+Environment.html

Which means there are about 31 million(or more) kilograms of CO2 produced in the year 2008 just from Google searches. Very interesting...

The Singularity is coming!!!!!!

When I grow up, Im going to be a Jupiter brain. ^^

I'm not so sure if I can just trust all these facts coming from an internet video.

Cool video.

yeah that was very informative, entertaining and definitely mind boggling. I just totally appreciate the internet and my "connectivity" to a lot of things. As much as I love my iphone I love going to the gym too. I dont know why people freak out when they cant contact you RIGHT NOW, over the most trivial things. It also drives me up the wall when i AM in the gym and people are on their phone talking and taking up equipment. It feels like as devices and technology start catching up with our lives, its like were slowly building a "bubble" around ourselves and it might become more difficult to contact each other directly.
anyone else bothered by someone when your talking to them face to face and theyre on the phone texting? that drives me UP THE WALL!
sorry about the soapbox. anyone else agree with me on my whole "bubble" theory?

That's pretty cool, the fact that by some people's 3rd semester they'll have outdated information >: kinda scary. But it's sort of like how doctors have to read new books and discoveries so that they can be informed about new things, students will just have to do the same.

China and India sure are busy huh?

Thanks for posting this..

Did I read this correctly? Ranking for broadband internet penetration. #19 United States. #22 Japan. Uh...wait...what?

There might be some fallacies in this video. The Internet, then ARPAnet, was around since like the 1950's. Market audience was defense and academia. It only became popular around the 90's, where the market audience finally shifted to everyday people. That's 40 years! I'm pretty sure it's not 4 years. Plus, a lot of old technology is still in use today. For instance, vacuum tubes are still used in amplifiers! BJTs are also still used, given it has declined. Change doesn't happen as fast as this video may make it seem.

No I didn't know.

I didn't know any of that but it also means that when I'm im college studying to become a computer enginner everything I learn will become otuadted :'s

I didn't know, but I doubt film and arts will change as quickly as other areas.

I find this stuff very fascinating!! Many technological developments are so exciting! Of course there's many ethical issues that either have or will arise soon but I think that this is great! Of course textbooks will change, but that's a part of history. I love it when new discoveries are made that change history. It's simply wonderful.

Interesting~~

I already felt that everything I learned in first year software engineering was already obsolete. xD

Nice choice of music theme: "right here, right now"...

Nice video, scary but real. ^^

Interesting and it does make sense. Back when I was still learning coding during high school, it was still used until now it's outdated and I think not many people are still into old coding anymore. This doesn't apply to me as well but my dad used to study computer science during his university time and he told me that what he learned back is already outdated and not used in today's world technology anymore.

Technology are growing faster than we have realized from the time that the thing is release from market or announced on public. It's quite scary but still the true fact.

I'm fine with the mention of past statistics, but predictions for the future in this seem like sensationalist bull. We'll push the physical limits of our materials and architecture before we push the limits of our expected technologies.

I remember seeing a similar, although not as visually pleasing. I think I sat up all night thinking about it.

Does the phrase "internet penetration" make anyone else giggle as much as I do ?

Shift Happens homepage...

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

wow kind of scary.. made me think about my life :x

So the stuff I learned in college was be obsolete BEFORE I got out, if they keep changing then we'd be stuck in school forever or drop out...

. . . wow. My brain kind of melted when they went over the amount of information generated in 2008 and what they think a desktop in 2049 will be capable of.

I'm not surprised by the 4-year degree thing though. Yeah, I'm looking at YOU, Adobe!

^^ i saw this video b4 ^^ it was couple years ago though ^^ not bad but allot of it has increased already lol ^^

Very very very interesting video that made me comment. Truly both awe inspiring and stunning at the same time(and kinda creepy for me too). Globalization concept is very evident at the technology part. Hmm... it makes me wanna live into the mountains after I read all of that, lol.

I was kinda scared while watching.
to much information.

wow technology will surpass us human species >,<

very interesting indeed....

I just noticed you like using this smiley "^^;". I see it everywhere! :o

i love the last line about music piracy XDDD

Wow, it really does happen. O_O
I think my brain had a small seizure from all the shocking info.

"By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain" That was slightly frightening..>w<'' [as well as the statement after that]

Other than that, that was quite the cool video!

My favourite part is when it says that in 2013 there will be built a computer that will overcome the human brain O_o

That would be quite awesome,right?

I suddenly feel demotivated from studying. LOL

Some of you pointed out that silicon based devices is nearing its lifetime; i agree. But i'm also confident that we'll get around the problem, aka quantum computing. Something Moore didn't foresee and who could blame him? ^^

if they did have that computer of a human brain, would it have emotions and such, and would u be able to input this computational ai into ero game character? D:

At this rate we are going to become some kind of superhuman, with all this power.

The world is changing the environment,technology and the things we do from day and tomorrow.The time is running,the human and machines are changes too. what does it mean to us?? I wish this is not an end of the world or something?

I wonder why so many are surprised by the pace of technology these days. I do not take higher education to learn of specific pieces of technology, I'm taking it to get an overview and a foundation to use in the years to come. You should not learn a specific implementation just to learn it, but instead you should "learn to learn", so that you can use what you know and apply it to other problems and situations. Use your mind in a "creative" way.

Most of the stuff I've been taught up till now mostly dates 10+ years back. It is the foundation I can use to understand the current technology and the current development better.

With regards to the video, when you think about it for a second, most of it sound quite plausible. It only seems amazing if you've never though along those lines before. For instance the expression "One in a million". Wouldn't be surprised if this dates back to when there weren't so many people around. We need to change that to "One in seven billion" or what seems to be the correct population on earth at the moment.

Hmmm seems interesting

Wow amazing facts, especially the 'illegally downloaded music' part. 680,000 musics in 5 mins? Simply wow.

One of the best 'fact' info video I've seen so far. Hope NTT's technology gets available to everyone soon ^^; Imagine all the high quality videos I could stream with that XD

Wow...So much info..Getting left behind is the worse thing that could happen...

I thought a cool title instead of shift happens is "shit happens". After all, with such shocking revelations, shit hits the people.

Godly computers and babies just made me O_O at the screen while watching the video.

Man, this is kind of scary actually, and kind of intimidating...It looks like we'll be living our sci-fi movies around 2030-2050. We already brought a lot of Star Trek's technology to life.

Cool.
And scary at the same time..
I bet that as time goes by, the video will be updated with even scarier facts..

technology are bringing people closer yet isolating us as well.

Nice video, but keep in mind around 90% of information available today on Internet is trash, worthless, racism, ignorance, violence, pornography, etc.

OMG...

Wow, very cool.

itz pretty interesting tho you wonder if all of those facts are really true or just made up

im in year of a a certain polytechnic and im learning abt IDE connections when i can use SATA ...

outdated-ness is really there...

wow~ that's some information to think about~~~
shift really do happens^^

that was great.

Great video, thanks for sharing ^^

Oh my.
I watched this in my class, and the facts still amaze me

Great video!
i'm studying abroad in india, and the fact about 25% of them are genius in india is quite true, cuz in my class .... most of them are too smart, distinction all the way.