I really enjoyed the "Did You Know?" video we watched in class on Monday. Most of the factoids I didn't know, but pretty much all of them made me think, "Wow, that's interesting." What surprised me we were some of the statistics regarding India and China. In particular, that China will soon be the #1 English-speaking country in the world or that the 25% of India's population with the highest IQ exceeds the total population of the United States.
What amazed me was the sheer amount of information we generate in this "technological age" we're living in. Things I found most interesting: 1) There are 5 times as many words in the English language today than in Shakespeare's time. 2) A week's worth of the NYT contains more information than a person would come across in an entire lifetime in the 18th century. 3) By 2013, a supercomputer will exceed the computational abilities of the human brain.
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