Shift Happens -- Did You Know?

[Williebee]

There have been a number of threads here discussing the merits/impact of social networking tools like Twitter/FB/etc. The new version of Shift Happens just hit the street.

For those that have not seen it:

Did You Know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8)(Version 4)

And the history of "Shift Happens" (http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/History+of+the+Presentation) (You'll find the earlier versions there as well.)

Did You Know? originally started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School (http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/) in Centennial, Colorado, United States. The presentation "went viral" on the Web in February 2007 and, as of June 2007, had been seen by at least 5 million online viewers. Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by at least 20 million people, not including the countless others who have seen it at conferences, workshops, training institutes, and other venues... As you will see, we received lots of feedback, both positive and negative, about the presentation... We believe that it is only through conversation, and subsequent action, that we will achieve the best possible education for our children.

[benbradley]

Oh, it was all really interesting until I saw the second or two of That Music Video...

Just for THAT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KClpLzFftU


Okay, back to the "Did you know" thing - the comment "The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand tomes mpre powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the on MIT had in 1965 so what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, and what's in your pocket will fit inside a red blood cell in 25 years." is a comment by Ray Kurzweil (who went to MIT at the time because MIT had a COMPUTER!). I'm sure he said it many times, in addition to this Google talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zo82W7aPI).

Okay, I give up. Here it is, 19,722,998 views and counting. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI)

[Williebee]

Ladies and Gentlemen- Mr. Bradley is an evil man.

that is all.

[MacAllister]

BenBradley is linking to hippie music? When did THAT happen?

[Synonym]

Someone please, take his temperature.

[Don]

BenBradley is linking to hippie music? When did THAT happen?
Hippie music? Maureen McGovern?

You need to have a talk with your parents, young lady. :D

[Williebee]

I'm not too fond of what feels like "politicizing" in this version. (Although, I might be overexposed to politics.) :)

Each version has carried different facts, and some fascinating concepts that aren't in the new one, too.

[benbradley]

Hippie stuff? The "Morning After" thing is an old smarmy song I posted in reaction to that Rick-'n'-roll overpopular "retro-cool" thing from the '80's.
I'm not too fond of what feels like "politicizing" in this version. (Although, I might be overexposed to politics.) :)

Each version has carried different facts, and some fascinating concepts that aren't in the new one, too.
Details! What facts were changed, and how do you see it being political?

There are legitimate reasons for changing facts, mainly that these types of facts go obsolete so fast.

Here's some interesting off-the-cuff stuff:

World population: Billions [any almanac or website on population]
Number of cell phones manufactured: Billions [Kurzweil's Google talk]

I suspect that most people with a cell phone now have NEVER used a "landline" phone. Many parts of the world went from NO phone service to cellphone service.

[Synonym]

Ah, but how many of those cell phone users still don't have indoor plumbing? Many places still don't have their priorities in the right order, IMHO.

I still can't get over how many TV's are in bathrooms. Jeez, that's dedication.

[Williebee]

Details! What facts were changed, and how do you see it being political?



Ergh. I left that open to too much confusion, sorry.

What I meant was, there are facts/numbers stated in the earlier versions that are not in the new one. (vice versa of course is true as well.)

Like: "If you are one in a million in China, there are 13-14 of you."

and that China has more honors students than we have students total.

Students today are training for jobs that didn't exist when they started school, some of them, when they started High School.

100% of graduates in India speak English.

stuff like that.

[LaceWing]

This is cool to me for three reasons, the first being how information is presented, the second being how change is accelerating, and third, how varied are the ways we live.

Put 'em all together, and I just can't even guess what might happen next.

I was watching (most of) a video on fora.tv last night, in which a consultant gave a talk on how to manage/enable innovation (guy's last name is Kao, if you want to look it up). I got the sense that learning to do so is a make or break thing for modern business -- and society --, just because nothing stays the same for long any more, anywhere, for anyone. It's like the whole concept of "traditional" is being overtaken.