{"id":625,"date":"2007-04-29T01:06:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:04:35","slug":"shift-happens-globalization-and-the-information-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/shift-happens-globalization-and-the-information-age-625","title":{"rendered":"Shift Happens - Globalization and the Information Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting - and sobering - implications regarding the New World Order...<\/p>\n<p>A taste of what's in there:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. federal government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljbI-363A2Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I learned a new number in there - \"1.5 exabytes\" (1.5 &times; 10<sup>18<\/sup>) - the amount of unique new information that will be created this year.<\/p>\n<p>[Hmmm - how was that estimated, I wonder?]<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/shift-happens-globalization-and-the-information-age-625#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some factoids on where we are headed - and the implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}