Did you know?

[kmessinger]

This is a PowerPoint presentation. It may be old but this is the first I've seen it.

Interesting and a little scary.

http://www.savethecolors.com/assets/Videos/didyouknow.pps (http://www.savethecolors.com/assets/Videos/didyouknow.pps)



Regards,

Keith

[DoctorDoom]

What it demonstrates is that we may reach a point where our ability to create more powerful computers will outstrip our abillity to control them. Think "Forbin Project" for real.

BTW, for those without Office, here's a free Powerpoint viewer from MS.

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en)

Those with kickass sound systems will appreciate it even more.

[DoctorDoom]

From the slides:

"Third generation fiber optics has recently been tested by both NEC and Alcatel that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber. That’s 1,900 CDs, or 150 million simultaneous phone calls, every second."

And in the real world:

A 100Gbps link between the east and west coasts of the US has been established for the first time by the Internet2 project. The network is already providing high-speed networking resources for the US research and academic community.

Suggested applications include medical researchers developing and fine-tuning virtual surgery techniques and the use of dedicated circuits for direct short or long term connections to supercomputing facilities. It's also the ultimate platform for network Doom, of course.100Gbps Internet2 link spans US (http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/16/internet2_spans_us/)

It ain't 10 terabits—yet—but it's a working, coast-to-coast system, and that, not a 10 Tbs experiment in a lab. is what matters.

In a few years ...

[Wolfcounsel]

The soundtrack is from the movie LAST OF THE MOHICANS, for anybody interested. I'm still waiting to be impressed by the first computer that can laugh at my jokes.:evilgrin:

[Rhino]

It’s estimated that
a week’s worth of
New York Times . . .

contains more information
than a person was likely
to come across in a
lifetime in the 18th century.Yeah, but in the 18th century, some of that information was actually true.

The data on England is totally false as well.

[Wolfcounsel]

"The data on England is totally false as well." --Rhino

Do you know which was the richest country, et cetera, in 1900?<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[Rhino]

Now wait! Lemme think! That was on final Jeopardy just last week!.........

[DoctorDoom]

The history of the United Kingdom is the story of how a small country became the world's most powerful nation—and then declined. In the 1700's, the Industrial Revolution made the United Kingdom the world's richest manufacturing country. The British ruled the seas and were the world's greatest traders. By 1900, they had an empire that covered about a fourth of the world's land and included about a fourth of its people. The British spread their way of life throughout their empire.Information on United Kingdom (http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Article?id=ar575740)

[Rhino]

Yeah, that's what they used to be, not what they are now. The slide was presented in the present tense.

[DoctorDoom]

It was a series of four slides:Name this country

• Richest in the World
• Largest Military
• Center of world business and finance
• Strongest education system
• World center of innovation and invention
• Currency the world standard of value
• Highest standard of living

England

In 1900I assume that the premise of the slides, and of the presentation, was to point out that the world is in constant change, and that what is true today might not be true tomorrow.

[Rhino]

Ah! I didn't catch the last slide in the series. Thanks.