What does it all mean?

Did you know 3.0 was quite jaw dropping with some of the facts that it presented. At first, I felt very positive about the facts being presented and was baffled at how amazing our technology is becoming and the changes over the last few years. As the presentation went on, I went from feeling baffled to a little nervous as the facts of the huge population growth was shown. Seeing how much our population across the globe is growing while in a time where we already are dealing with global warming threats scares me quite a bit. I simply do not know how the world is going to deal with so many people in such a fast amount of time. Though there is plenty of undeveloped land right now, we are on the verge on a water crisis and have already started an energy crisis. This means that something needs to be done, either stop the population growth somehow or find alternative ways to deal with it.
Another shocking fact was that more people in Asian countries speak english than in America. To me, this means that the world is becoming much more diverse, and that the one time racial barrier across the world is slowly diminishing. If everyone eventually speaks the same language, than it will be much easier for everyone to get along and interact. With everyone on the same page, great things will be much easier to accomplish. There is no denying the technology advances Japan and China have brought fourth, and if America and these countries could work hand in hand, even greater things can be accomplished.
The fact about how a computer that has the capabilitites of the brain will be developed within a few years scares me a little as will. If a machine is as capable as a human, it may put a lot of people out of jobs, and make more people useless. I feel like technology may be on the verge of too advanced for our time, and we may be headed towards a dangerous path. Obviously, the computer will not be a human with emotions and such, but if it can produce at the rate of a human in certain tasks, then surely companies will use those instead of expensive employees.
The facts about 25% of India having a smarter IQ than everyone in America didn't really bother me, because India is so massive it is not really an even playing field. Some other facts in the presentation were like that as well, when at first glance you are astounded, but then realize it is not that big a deal. The fact China will be the largest English speaking country in the world isn't that amazing because it has more than twice the population of the US.
The facts about people googling so much means that people have a lot of time on there hands to spend at the computer. With nearly every profession now providing a computer, workers spend quite a bit of time browsing the net, essentially wasting time. The question was posed, "who did people ask these questions to before google," and the answer is no one. Before the internet, people really didn't have much time to think about silly stuff they ask now. They spent there time working or focusing on other things, but now with technology so developed they don't need to work so hard, and have more time to pose "who won the 1932 world series" or something along that nature. Also, with the news now always online and much more accessible than newspaper, which is a dying breed, the internet gets a lot more use and searches as it is the number one news provider, when back in the past people had to wait each morning for the newspaper.
So all in all it means that we are growing too large as a society, becoming too technologically advanced for our own good, and need to slow it down a little. With all this brain power we should spend our time thinking of alternative energy solutions and not who is the next American Idol.


Did You Know? 3.0. YouTube.com, 8 Apr. 2009. Web. 13 Oct. 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmwZ96_Gos.