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The creators of the infamous “Shift Happens” presentation have just released their latest updated version. The people behind it are Jeff Brenman, karl Finch and Scott McLeod.
****UPDATE 2009 FALL V4.0 NOW AVAILABLE: CLICK HERE****
Never ceases to amaze me.
April 22, 2009 at 7:59 pm
This means that, in the next 12 months, 7 million babies will be born in the U.S., about 30 million in China, and over 40 million in India!
Did you know that, if something triples every six months for a period of 20 years, then the original number is multiplied by
1.2 x 10^19 (that’s 12 billion billion)!
There’s not enough data to compute when we will have one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) Internet devices, but it might be next year (who knows??!)….hmmm….it took 8 years for the first number to be multiplied by 1000, but 16 years for that number to be multipled by 1000….does that mean we will reach a trillion in 24 years (16 + 8), or 32 years (16 x 2), or, using common sense and our perceived current growth rate, sometime this fall!?
April 22, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I am in awe of your maths and working ! nice one and i say sometime this fall
April 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Nice video. It is a eye opening. Perhaps somebody should also think of reducing the population explosion and saving this planet!
May 15, 2009 at 1:38 pm
My thought…. How many people can the world support in our current technology, IE farming, fuels, and housing?
Could it be by 2030 we are , well, out of space, or in outer space?
June 26, 2009 at 11:02 pm
It will all come down to clean water…
September 25, 2009 at 5:40 am
No thats never what its going to come to. We have the technology to purify ocean water. if anything space, technology, random god like apocalypse, or testosterone.
July 1, 2009 at 3:47 am
How silly and insignificant to think we need to reduce population for continued existance on this planet. Better distribution of resources, more efficient & less wasteful use of our natural resources, and moral and technological advances will more than compensate for the population growth.
July 1, 2009 at 3:51 am
Every generation has its doom & gloom proponents but this generation seems to be ripe with them. To think of the information explosion and consider that our humanity seems to fall further and further behind is awe inspiring in the worst way. We would like to think we get better with each passing century when we abase ourselves with less consideration to the consequences each year.
July 4, 2009 at 1:28 am
Is this updated from the 2008 version played at the Sony/BMG meeting in Rome? It appears to be exactly the same, thus not new for 2009?
July 4, 2009 at 2:00 am
Dear Smarty Pants,
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I’m not sure what was played at the Sony/BMG meeting in Rome but I do know this was only released in March 2009 so it is the latest up to date version (you can’t have full 2009 stats by March
Have a nice day,
Chris
July 16, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Why does everyone keep referring to previous generations as an explanation for what’s happening in this one? There has never been a set of circumstances anywhere near, remotely approaching, even in pale comparison, to the threat level of this one.
We are facing an approaching disaster, from which we will probably not escape from because the human mind allows us to rationalize ourselves out of uncomfortable thought, so we won’t talk about it until we are scorched by the heat of the approaching flames. In this case, we don’t want to do anything about the cars we love to drive, or the packaging of the goods we love to buy.
It’s easier to believe in an alternative. A lot of people also refuse to evacuate in the path of an approaching hurricane.
Don’t trust ‘belief,’ trust evidence. Prefer truth over comfort.
November 3, 2009 at 8:43 am
This video really makes you think about the effects of digital media. The population growth and technological growth have drastic implications for our future. I think that the digital revolution will continue to stream human communication with countless amounts of information on a historic scale.
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