…if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in–that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it’s the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that’s 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.
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Let’s say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That’s about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 10,000 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.
I think that’s going to be a big deal. Don’t you?
I’d wager that yes, it is going to be a big deal. Collaborating with people via the internet has already enriched my life tremendously. I’m certain that’s not going to stop. What a great future to look forward to!
This might be a good time to just go ahead and ask if anyone wants to collaborate with me on the San Diego local food map.
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Josh Levy thought the internet would benefit from a site like barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com that cataloged things deserving of rejection and denouncement, so I asked Chris Radcliff to make one. He did because he’s so nice.
If you focus on what’s going wrong in your life—especially if you see it as “bad luck” you can do nothing about—it will seem blacker and more malevolent. In a short time, you’ll become so convinced that everything is against you that you’ll notice more and more instances where this appears to be true. As a result, you will almost certainly stop trying, convinced that nothing you can do will improve your prospects.
every year, taxpayers shell out between $7.1 billion and $8.2 billion to subsidize or clean up after our nation’s 9,900 confined animal feeding operations.
Please join me and the rest of the San Diego Summertime Society on Saturday for the Cardiff 5K. It’s a fun run in Cardiff by the Sea involving a 40oz beverage, and pickles (I think).
The cost is $15, which includes a T-Shirt (printed on a screen that I helped make), and 40oz beverage. All proceeds go to support local non profit Invisible Children.
The race starts at 3pm at 2133 Edinburg Ave in Cardiff. Yes, that’s a house. This is a small event, but it couldn’t happen without the generous sponsorship of Seaside Market, Hansens Surfboards, Cardinal Group Investments, Orion Trading Group, The Kraken, BC Grill, and Mar Vista Liquor.
