ALIENATIO

We are living in exponential times.

一個很棒的影片，描述資訊爆炸的時代＝我們所處的時代。

不過這麼晚才讓我接觸到這個影片，某種程度上來說還挺諷刺的。（笑）

下面依timing整理出影片中所有的訊息。

DID YOU KNOW?

If you're one in a million in China...

...there are 1,300 people just like you

China will soon become the NUMBER ONE English speaking country in the world.

The 25% of India's population
with the highest IQ's...

...is GREATER than the total
population ofm the United States

TRANSLATION:
India has more honors kids
than America has kids

DID YOU KNOW?

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010...

...did not exist in 2004

We are currently
preparing students
for jobs that
don't yet exist...

using technologies
that haven't been invented...

in order to solve problems
we don't even know are problems yet.

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
today's learner will have 10-14 jobs...
by the age of 38

1 in 4 workers
has been with their current employer
for less than a year.

1 in 2
has been there less than five years.

DID YOU KNOW?

1 out of 8 couples married
in the U.S. last year met online

There are over 200 million
registered users on MySpace.

If MySpace were a country,
it would be the 5th-largest in the world
(between Indonesia and Brazil)

The #1 ranked country in
Broadband Internet Penetration is...

Bermuda

#19 The United States

#22 Japan

DID YOU KNOW?

We are living in exponential times

There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month.

In 2006, this number was 2.7 Billion.

To whom were these questions
addressed B.G.? (Before Google)

The first commercial
text message was sent
in December of 1992.

Today, the number of
text messages sent
and recieved everyday,
exceeds the total
population of
the planet.

Years it took to reach
a market audience of 50 million

Radio 38 years

TV 13 years

Internet 4 years

iPod 3 years

Facebook 2 years

The number of internet devices
in 1984 was 1,000

in 1992 was 1,000,000

in 2008 is 1,000,000,000

There are about 540,000 words
in the English language

About 5X as many as during
Shakespeare's time

It is estimated that a week's worth of
the New York Times contains more
information than a person was likely
to come across in a lifetime in the
18th century.

It is estimated that 4 exabytes (4.0X10^19)
of unique information will be generated this year.

That is more than previous 5,000 years.

The amount of new
technical information
is doubling every 2 years...

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.

NTT Japan has successfully
tested a fiber optic cable...
that pushes 14 trilliob bits per second
down a single strand of fiber.

That is 2,660 CDs or
210 million phone calls
every second.

It is currently tripling every
six months and is expected
to do so for the next 20 years.

By 2013,
a supercomputer will be built
that exceeds the computational
capabilities of the human brain

Predictions are that by 2049,
a $1000 computer will
exceed the computational capabilities
of the entire human species

DID YOU KNOW?

During the course of this presentation...

67 babies were born in the US

274 babies were born in China

395 babies were born in India

 And 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.

SO WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

---

很棒的一個影片，剪輯的效果配上BGM之後的感染力非常之高。

這影片有個中文改編版，但不建議去看，品質差很多。（無論從訊息的timing、BGM搭配與畫面構成都差很多）

當然，裡面的訊息並不是全部都真的具備如第一眼所給人的壓迫感。比方第一個訊息說：

在中國，如果你是「百萬中才有一」的人才，那麼你至少有一千三百個和你相同水準的競爭者。

這是就「天資」的數學機率分配來看而已。

環境的外部性在這裡沒有被考慮進去。換言之，這其實只是個人口統計的問題，實際上的故事當然不會這麼單純。不過，驚人的推論往往都是架構在簡化後的世界（就如同經濟學模型一般），所以這個訊息本身是有它足以撼動人心的內涵，但這不是結束，它只是個開始。影片最後那一句「SO WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?」下得很棒，這些訊息值得叫人深思......