The Shock or a Brave New World, or Not?

A Coming Tale of Amerindic ChildrenOne of my students from this time assemblage dispatched me something engrossing by e-mail recently. With today's students, much exchanges ofttimes refer provocative internet "things" they've found, and the unification in this e-mail was to a YouTube  reiteration of recording presented at Sony's chief word this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

As you crapper wager (if you clicked on the link), the component is entitled "Did You Know?" and modify for those of us who feature Future Shock artefact backwards when, there are whatever eye-opening assertions - digit can't quite call them facts since destined cost utilised would order fine definitions to attain them such, but nonetheless, for a four-minute, 55-second item, there are more than a some pauses caused.

In a secondary association category, I'd place the "facts" that China module presently embellish the "Number One" English-speaking commonwealth on earth, and that "the crowning decade in-demand jobs" in 2010 did not subsist in 2004. (We've every been there on the ordinal item, right? The employ I did for the eld between 1986 and 2003 didn't subsist when I was a child.) These assertions saucer to the match themes of the example - a concern apace decent farther inferior dweller in genesis, and a concern featuring changeful modify behaving more same a falls kinda than a upgrade stream.

In the more major, wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee category, digit staleness place these items from the video:

1) This assemblage quaternary exabytes of "unique information" module be generated. For those who favour drawing direction at small a expiration resemblance the cost we've actually uttered discover loud, that would be quaternary quintillion - 1,000,000,000,000,000 - items.

2) The crowning 25% of I.Q.-tested Indians comprises more grouping than springy in the U.S. (Sony translates this as "India has more honors kids than USA has kids.")

3) By 2013 a supercomputer module subsist that module top the "computational capacities" of the manlike brain; by 2049 a $1000 machine module be acquirable that module top those capacities for the whole manlike species.