Were Living in Exponential Times - Short video with some crazy facts.

im a history major...

like 4th repost but w.e. its still cool

dude, the first time i saw that i was blazed off my ass and got really scared haha

Pretty cool.

thats really dope.

to the first post.

i thin your safe. im pretty history will never become "outdated"

what Does that all mean??

super cool.

i think its sick that were caught right up in the exponential growth times. think about how stagnant civilization was between 3,000 bc and the year 0. then think about how stagnant it was again from about 800 ad to 1400 ad. then again from 1500 to 1776. then from 1776 to 1900 think of how few innovations there were. a fucking gun that could shoot 6 bullets semi automatically was like the culmination of 100 year's worth of research. damn.

so being blazed makes you scared?

"1/2 of what you learn your first year of college will be outdated by your third year"

not college, IT course

Excellent video. Good post.

ha, i was thinking about that one while studying for a test on roman art (don't ever take art survey)
and for some reason i highly doubt that what i know (or don't know really) about that art will change in 2 years. If its a tech course or something, then maybe...

and as for people way back not knowing anything, thats just not true. They knew plenty. Where do you think our info came from? Rather than learn it, they had to figure it out.

Or if we go even farther back, try to kill a woolly mammoth with some fucking sticks and a big rock. Then tell me who knows nothing.

Its just the way times change, knowledge evolves into stuff that is more relevant to our lives now.

oh ok, my bad. You're getting real basic here then.

That is some crazy stuff to think about, how the first got up and walked on 2 feet etc.

I think they figured out the whole weapons type things out of desperation or accident. Say some animal they were hunting fell, hit its head on a rock and died. Then they try to get others to fall on the rocks. Then when that isn't working, they bring the rock the animals, by throwing it at them. Either that or a situation like one of them was trapped and under attack and all he had to defend himself was a stick so he beat the shit out of an animal with it. It just takes a creative, innovative mind to change how people think. Of course these days it's a lot harder because we have so much more technology

sick video. are there more out there like this?

are you kdiding me? We know so much accumulated knowledge. just think about how much we learn. we learn algebra before we can drive. we know so much about chemistry, history, all that.

The average person back in the day knew how to do few things. They knew how to poop pee sleep eat round up the cattle milk the cow cook the bread and read the bible. period.

They had no idea what was going on across the country, who or what the president did, what happens in a double replacement reaction if you add some HCL, what a cell was, what a chromosome was, what x+5=8 solve for x was, linear regressions were, vector equations, 9.8 m/s^2, kinetic energy, why currency is good, why currency is bad, what the stock market was, what happened 3000 years ago, how to say what time is it in french, or the difference in an adverb noun or preposition.

i just finished anthropology and archaeology.

Humans didnt invent stone tools, Australeopithicus afarensis were the first to use the Olduwan stone tradition. They hit some rocks on some other rocks and realized hey this is sharp. They used those rocks to butcher animals and cut up hides to make clothes. Then Homo Habilis came along and made the achulean, bifacially flaked, stone cutters to make hand axes and spears. Homo erectus was the real genious here who made weapons and realized they could use those tools to hunt.

It took like 2,000,000 years to go from simple stone chopper to spear.

Then by the time humans came to the scene, stone tools were already pretty well developed and they didnt really make any new advancements for anohter 250,000 years until they realized they could make bows and arrows.

WOW great video its crazy to think in 2006 google searches at 2.7 billion a year and 08 is 30 billion

Woah some of them were a little scary a $1000 computer that will be mmore powerful than the human brain. The technological advances the world is makiing at the moment are mind blowing.

i'm not disagreeing that we have more knowledge, we learn it all

but this is what i meant (i'm referring to anyone in the past here, not specifically like caveman or something)

we know whats going on worldwide because of TV and the internet. Did you invent either? No, people before us did. They made it out of nothing but knowledge they had been taught. No one just sat down one day with a bunch of wires, a knob, and a plastic box and made a TV. They used knowledge that had already been discovered and was taught to them.

Math itself is ancient. And math hasn't changed all that much ever because of what it is. Math basically cannot change without some huge radical error discovered that alters human thought, but thats getting way beyond math anyways.

Basically what i mean to say is we know a lot, but we know a lot because those before us knew less, and wanted to know more. Discovery, learning, and putting into practice is, in my opinion the essence of humanity. It's everything we know. Even in skiing for example, you see a trick, you want to learn that trick, and once you do, you keep using it.

And i'm a bit confused by the language part/history. French has been spoken for a long time, its roots are in Latin. More people know it now in part due to population rises. (more french people=more french speakers) and the vast colonial empire the French built. And history has always been known, though not as formal and detailed as it is to us. But once again, both of these (expanding language, history) come from the need to discover more.
As for where language itself starts...well...who knows? I'll give you that one, the ability to communicate definitely makes us smarter.

well you're quite knowledgeable in the subject! Much better than the usual type of arguments on here

I haven't taken either, so i was using "human" as somewhat a vague term to describe everyone at that point. And i know my examples obviously aren't actually how it happened, i was trying to put things into some sort of relation, a very very simplified version.

but thank you for the details/corrections

uh..... no?