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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

03/31/2007 11:52:56 AM · #2

Wow!

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

03/31/2007 12:02:40 PM · #3

Interesting stuff!

Louis

Nikon D800

Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D

03/31/2007 12:04:21 PM · #4

Wow, how alarmist. Interesting, but what does it all mean? It seemed to be a lot about education, and how potentially useless it will be in the face of exponential changes in technology. The fact is, if the concern is about the work force, the people populating those jobs will all be self-taught, just as with the majority of people in high-tech jobs today who have been around at least since the late nineties. And frankly, I am eagerly anticipating a computer that is more complex than the human brain. What's to worry about there, if this is to make us worry? Current computers are faster than the human brain, at least with logic operations, and we're all still here.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

03/31/2007 12:04:36 PM · #5

I can't get over the $1,000 computer exceeding the computational power of the human race!

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

03/31/2007 12:07:22 PM · #6

I can't get over the daily number of SMS messages exceeding the population of the planet!

NstiG8tr

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM

03/31/2007 12:10:35 PM · #7

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

I can't get over the $1,000 computer exceeding the computational power of the human race!

Because of technology the human race gets lazier and dumber by the day. I'd imagine it won't take much of a system.

Tranquil

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon

03/31/2007 12:17:03 PM · #8

Bullocks! ;)

Interesting stuff

asimchoudhri

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

03/31/2007 12:20:03 PM · #9

I normally don't focus much on what Bill Gates has to say, but I think this is relevant: 20 years he said that a kid of average intelligence and average work-ethic in a middle-class family in america had more opportunities than a hard working intelligent kid in a third world country, but warned that this won't always be true. Today that is no longer the case. A lazy work ethic in an industrialized nation won't guarantee much in the world today. Probably shouldn't, either. Thank you for posting the link.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/31/2007 01:24:12 PM · #10

I feel small. Like an insignificant speck in the universe.

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L

03/31/2007 01:35:44 PM · #11

Originally posted by _eug:

I feel small. Like an insignificant speck in the universe.

I don't need this video to feel that way...

Anyways, was interesting. Very cool stuff in there if it's all true.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

03/31/2007 01:41:29 PM · #12

BG - Before Google. Very interesting term!

Camabs

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 35mm f/2.0

03/31/2007 01:48:50 PM · #13

Originally posted by NstiG8tr:

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I can't get over the $1,000 computer exceeding the computational power of the human race!

Because of technology the human race gets lazier and dumber by the day. I'd imagine it won't take much of a system.

It's the other way 'round: 'cause we're lazy, we invent technology. ;)

To me, the video is just a bunch of numbers. There is no meassage, there is no link between the numbers, nothing to hope for, nothing to be afraid of, no course of action needed or wanted. Waste of my six precious minutes.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

03/31/2007 01:54:02 PM · #14

Originally posted by kyebosh:

Anyways, was interesting. Very cool stuff in there if it's all true.

Nothing in the future is true. There is no future. ;)

Oh, and Judgement Day is upon us. The robots will rise up against us.

Originally posted by Melethia:

BG - Before Google. Very interesting term!

BG was the Yahoo! Dynasty, right?

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L

03/31/2007 01:56:51 PM · #15

Yahoo! is still the #1 visited website on the planet. Google is 3rd.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

03/31/2007 02:04:28 PM · #16

Originally posted by _eug:

Originally posted by kyebosh:
Anyways, was interesting. Very cool stuff in there if it's all true.

Nothing in the future is true. There is no future. ;)

Oh, and Judgement Day is upon us. The robots will rise up against us.

It's the Matrix.

David.C

03/31/2007 02:56:29 PM · #17

Interesting stuff -- very exciting times ahead for us and our children!

David

03/31/2007 04:47:44 PM · #18

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Originally posted by _eug:
Oh, and Judgement Day is upon us. The robots will rise up against us.

It's the Matrix.

No, those would be the Machines and they'd get their metal hides handed to them by the Terminators. ;)

03/31/2007 04:52:08 PM · #19

Originally posted by kyebosh:

Yahoo! is still the #1 visited website on the planet. Google is 3rd.

Only because Yahoo! touts itself as a Media site and not a Search Engine. It's apples and oranges. If Google did Games, Music, web hosting...
* Autos
* Finance
* Groups
* HotJobs
* Movies
* Personals
* Photos
* Real Estate
* Shopping
* Sports
* Tech
* Travel
* TV
* Yellow Pages

It'd be a different story all together. I want my Search Engine to be a SEARCH ENGINE. ;)

03/31/2007 04:58:00 PM · #20

Originally posted by _eug:

I want my Search Engine to be a SEARCH ENGINE. ;)

Geez, you don't ask for much do you? Why can't a search engine be a content provider with it's own content at the top of search results?

03/31/2007 05:14:13 PM · #21

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

Originally posted by _eug:
I want my Search Engine to be a SEARCH ENGINE. ;)

Geez, you don't ask for much do you? Why can't a search engine be a content provider with it's own content at the top of search results?

For the same reason that news is not entertainment. I'm an adult and don't need to be spoon fed.

03/31/2007 05:16:57 PM · #22

Originally posted by _eug:

I'm an adult and don't need to be spoon fed.

No, but an occasional sponge bath is fun. :-)