Not all 1s and 0s
Publish date: 14 September 2009 by Michael Joubert> 3 million. English articles on Wikipedia
40.55%. Tweets that are pointless babble. Not more?
50+ million. Number of Facebook Usernames claimed.
2.5 trillion. The number of digits Pi was calculated to by a Japanese supercomputer.
50%. Staff expansion at Facebook this year.
11 million. Players logging onto World of Warcraft on a regular basis.
1,025,897,463. Firefox downloads up till on 2009-08-24. 21.8 per second.
€18-million. EU investment in 4th gen Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced technology for mobile broadband.
98th. SA’s worldwide broadband speed rating with an average downlink speed of 1.68 Mbps.
1 atom. The thickness of sheets of carbon known as graphene.
366 375 km². Surface area required to power the world with solar panels
10 million. Books scanned by Google for Google Books.
1.1%. IE’s loss of market share this year.
2 million. The number of N97’s Nokia has already shipped worldwide.
30 600. The number of visitors TechSmart.co.za received last month.
$21 billion. The cost of a Japanese project to build a giant solar-power generator in space.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-B. F. Skinner
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
-Jeff Pesis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso
We are caged by our cultural programming.
-Terence McKenna
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
-Marshall McLuhan
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
-Robert Anton Wilson
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-Steve Wozniak
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-Winston Churchill
