Interesting. I guess techno-optimists and techno-pessimists (and alarmists) will get a completely different take-home message from watching this. - Bora Zivkovic

And some of us in the middle might pick nits with the facts and supposed meaning--just for starters, since when are 25% of students honors students? (And how "unique information" is defined...) - Walt Crawford

Oh yes, Walt, I was doubtful about some facts, and about the framing of some facts - this was definitely something that requires dutiful fact-checking. - Bora Zivkovic

As with most things of this sort, the framing may be more of an issue than the "facts." (Although "exponential times" is such a lovely, and essentially meaningless, term that I couldn't help but like it.) I'll give the creators credit: They stop short of The Meaning. - Walt Crawford

This is a remix by someone at Sony BMG. It's not without its own limitations, but the version on which the remix is based is much better imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Bill Hooker

It seems to me its main intent is to hammer to people in the United States "you're not the centre of the world". To those of us outside the US, this is not exactly a groundbreaking message. It also makes a bunch of false equivalencies, as if raw numbers were directly translatable across cultures and countries. Also: stuff is happening fast and there are a lot of people in the world. - Richard Akerman