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Interesting facts nicely presented
Posted 15 years ago by boytfan in category: interesting
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HoraceSPatoot - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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That was horrible. About 20 percent was wrong or misleading and most of what was left was obvious. The top 25% of kids in India outnumber the kids in the US? So the population's four times larger. Who says a computer will be smarter than a human? Smarter in what way? People had more information available once there were newspapers. Wow! The useful information in this could be read in about 15 seconds, without the annoying soundtrack.

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Civbert - 15 years ago
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  I agree, the India IQ stat was blatantly misleading. Did you know that total number of the tallest 25% of Indians is greater than the total population of the US? :D  

mattjonesss - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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I thought that it was interesting. They are saying that computers will be made that can process more information faster than the human brain but those computers will still need to be told what to compute! The world is changing very fast and I do believe the US will fade behind India and China as world powers eventually but India and China will face population number issues in the future. Feeding all of those people will put a large stress on our planet and someday the limit will be reached where our planet's resources are pushed to the limit (ie the human race's carrying capacity will be reached).

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HoraceSPatoot - 15 years ago
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  The computer comparison is one example of something I have a problem with. They state that computers will process information faster than the human brain as if they can be authoritative and quantitative, but they are neither. What does "process information" mean and how do you quantify it (I read the original literature, and there is no consensus on what these concepts mean)? I guess my biggest problem is that they state lots of pseudostatistics flatly as if they could quantitate things that no one knows how to quantitate. I'll certainly agree that overpopulation is an inevitable crisis. I just thought everyone already knew that. 

thewebwoman - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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Even if a lot of this info appears to be somewhat exaggerated, it still seems like we have a lot of work to do to manage the new technologies and information that is being created on a daily basis. I don't really think the issue here is about how the U.S. compares to other countries. I think we need to realize that country borders will eventually become immaterial. Once the internet was unleashed, the boundaries between countries, ethnicities, language and communication began to break down. I don't think technology will save us, but it may change a lot of the ways people deal with foreign concepts and differences. Whether for good or ill I cannot say.

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xBTx - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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I think this is cool :)

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smithsc - 13 years ago [ Reply ]
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Same statistics and exact wording was done in a different video on BOYT in 2006 (2 years before this one). Here is the link: http://bestofyoutube.com/story.php?title=3754458

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