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This video lists a lot of really shocking facts that has to do with today's society and technology. The things shown in this video really opens your eyes to how exponential technology REALLY is. The video says that "the amount of technical information is doubling every year 2 years" which in turn means that "for students starting a 4 year technical degree will have half of what they learned in their first year of study be outdated by their third year of study." Its so scary to know that technology is actually evolving faster than we ourselves can learn it. Knowing that going for a technical degree will leave your knowledge outdated before you can even finish college really gives you something to think about, and makes it kind of seem like a waste of time. Another scary fact stated was "By 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain. Predictions are that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human species." The fact that in less than 40 years we'll probably have a computer that exceeds the capabilities of the entire human race really makes me feel like the movie 'Terminator' might not be as science fiction as we'd all like to think. The freakiest part of all is that this video isn't really a "depiction" of the future; it is what is bound to happen based on the exponential trends we've observed thus far. Our calculated future that this video shows really makes it seem like the times we live in now is nothing to compare to the times in 5, 10, or 20 years. What we live is now is just the very beginning of the exponential graph that very soon is going to shoot straight up beyond our control.