Sunday, January 10, 2010

Statistics where would we be without them

Statistics show the world how much a percent of something there is, or the amount of certain things, to put into shorter terms something to do with numbers. Seeing the "Did You Know?" video defiantly did prove some things. First, during the course of the presentation the near 700000 songs that are illegally downloaded in five minutes which how long the video is. Second, which was what really amazed me is that India has more honor kids then the Americans have kids. Third, the amount of information that we send out on the Internet is mind-blowing: 4 exabytes to put that as a number, simply think of it as a 4 with a small platoon of zeroes (4.0*10 times itself 19 times). Lastly, Japan known for doing some amazing things with technology, but this is going over the limit. What they did was they created a fibre optic cable, with each strand able to send 14 trillion bits of information per second. That's sending about 175 gigs per second times 60 is 10500 gigs per minute which I think is amazing. These were in my opinion my favourite statistics of this video.

To answer the video's question of what all these statistics mean is quite simple. It means that we are making advances in technology. People of course always have a tendency to say, "Hey let's make this technology to make people feel better by make this faster and improving stuff." What is extremely dumb is even with these helpful advances in technology,most of them are useless. Like paint on most windows computers, and the social adaptations. You know that's all useless, all people really need in a computer is to do work. The only reason they add other stuff is because they either don't have it or they want the technological advancements in computers to seem like they're the better computer.

In conclusion, we have made many advances in technology even though some of our advances are kind of useless, but still companies still think they do have some sort of use. When will they learn you ask. They won't.

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