Did You Know???

By the time you read this blog 200,000 songs will be downloaded illegally. At this rate it will take 46 days for every human on this planet to download a song illegally. That’s 6,700,000,000 songs. Remember, someone has to write all those songs. If you read one week of the New York Times you will have read more information than you would have in a life time in the 18th century. Most people just skim through the paper not pausing to think just how much information they are seeing and that their great, great, great, great grandfather would probably never have seen that much information in his life.
This year we will make 32,000,000,000,000 bytes of unique information, more than was made in the previous 5000 years. Those 32 trillion bytes that we will make this year will be but a miniscule portion of the amount of information that will be made next year. And the year after that, and the year after that and so on and so forth. At least until the great apocalypse comes and all the humans are killed by the alien invaders.
Next time you go on the internet or read a book think about how fortunate you are that you live now and not a long time ago. Just remember that 200,000 songs have just been downloaded illegally and that you have read more information than you would have in a week in the 18th century. On the downside we have to know all sorts of stuff that we wouldn’t need to know 300 years ago. Just remember you are smarter than most people were in the 18th century and you are only a kid.