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At PerotCharts.com we encounter interesting facts and statistics that don’t readily lend themselves to a chart presentation, usually because they do not consist of a series of data but rather just a single, discrete value. However, when a collection of factoids is skillfully assembled and dynamically presented, an interesting (possibly disturbing) scenario can emerge. The YouTube presentation below was recently brought to our attention, and we believe it is worth your time (4:46) to watch it. Great job by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman of researching the progression of information technology and its effect on education and jobs in the future.
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July 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 am
Why don’t we all become artists?
August 15th, 2009 at 4:34 am
The explosive revolution of cybernetics will not have a grand impact on society until -and as- it leads to new fundamental concrete developments. For all our internet revolution, we are still working ever longer hours and for houses and cars that are still very expensive in wage-relative terms.
The 2 big developments that cybernetics will soon give birth to are a full-automation transportation network (and this is HUGE), and virtual prototyping for engineering that is truly as good as physical prototyping, for virtually any technical product.
These developments will change the world – we have to wait for “the chip” to mature enough to facilitate it.
http://andrewatkin.blogspot.com/2009/06/automated-transportation-network.html
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Now that’s cool!
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I recall growing bacteria in a flask. Once the population hit the exponential growth rate we’re experiencing, it very quickly consumed all available resources and the growth stopped and declined. This is 100% repeatable and is scary for our times.