Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

dryhat

Take a look at this clip from just 19 years ago ...

"Just what is the internet anyway?"

Spirit_2

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

While it's true I have been accused of many things, being Brummy isn't one of them.

I, on the other hand was born there. My meter reading said I was 25% Northern and put me as somewhere around London.

Apart from NP, I do not know anyone who eats chips and gravy. Come to think of it, I do not think I have even seen anyone eating it.

Chips and curry sauce though...mmmm yummy.

Spirit_2

I hope all is well or getting better for FC and her family, and that MissK is away from the thread for a good and happy reason.

vivatifosi

dryhat wrote: »

Take a look at this clip from just 19 years ago ...

"Just what is the internet anyway?"

Wow, amazing. Thanks dryhat.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

This was the science story I found interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24836917

As I definitely fell in to the camp of a little (out of date) knowledge being worse than none. It is totally unprecedented how quickly the world is changing.

Enjoyed that too. I got seven right, failing on the birth rate and energy questions. It's surprising, having done development economics as part of my first degree to reflect how much the world has changed in the time since, especially in Asia. I loved the pin code analogy, very simple and thought provoking.

LydiaJ

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

This......

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4815393

..... has turned into a surprisingly good thread with some decent debate.

Thanks for the heads up, Hamish. Very interesting.

michaels wrote: »

This was the science story I found interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24836917

As I definitely fell in to the camp of a little (out of date) knowledge being worse than none. It is totally unprecedented how quickly the world is changing.

6/9

I'm not sure it gives an entirely balanced view, though. Take the first question, for example. Population growth can still be a massive problem without any increase in the number of children. Take this country, for example. We have about the same number of children as we did in 1901, but because we all live so much longer, we have a much bigger overall population with a much bigger demand on food, housing, etc.

dryhat wrote: »

Take a look at this clip from just 19 years ago ...

"Just what is the internet anyway?"

I find it hard to believe that that was really as recent at 1994. Most people I knew (admittedly mostly educated people) had email and knew what @ meant long before then. Heck, I was using email as my main means of communicating with my parents during my summer job over the holidays of 1988.

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

6/9

I'm not sure it gives an entirely balanced view, though. Take the first question, for example. Population growth can still be a massive problem without any increase in the number of children. Take this country, for example. We have about the same number of children as we did in 1901, but because we all live so much longer, we have a much bigger overall population with a much bigger demand on food, housing, etc.

Oh dear - I am, the only ignorant one then.

I just think things like the number of children per woman is probably something that if you went back hundreds of years would look pretty stable and then to see it suddenly collapse is remarkable, similarly the average life expectancies, rates of education etc etc.

silvercar

I have just discovered ted.com. Bite size lectures on interesting subjects by enthusiastic people.

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

I find it hard to believe that that was really as recent at 1994. Most people I knew (admittedly mostly educated people) had email and knew what @ meant long before then. Heck, I was using email as my main means of communicating with my parents during my summer job over the holidays of 1988.

DH says same 're email, though mostly due to strength of JANET. I worked for a major US Corp in late eighties and we had email, but I didn't know about at symbol being used in email until later as corporate interface meant you weren't exposed to that stuff.

I started using online systems in late eighties, but didn't go online proper, on something I knew of as internet until about same time as Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel in the clip. Amazing that Couric hasn't aged in nineteen years, and Gumbel was opinionated even back then.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm not sure it gives an entirely balanced view, though. Take the first question, for example. Population growth can still be a massive problem without any increase in the number of children. Take this country, for example. We have about the same number of children as we did in 1901, but because we all live so much longer, we have a much bigger overall population with a much bigger demand on food, housing, etc.

Population growth hasn't been the main worry for many years now.

Total global population is now expected to peak in 2060, and decline steadily thereafter.

The capital shortage of the future will be that of human capital, and the resource wars of the future may well be fought over people.