In the last few blog entries, I've been talking about TimeSeries. This time, I'd like to diverge a little for a change. Still there is a tie to TimeSeries

About a year ago, I went to a E&U conference. As you may know, Informix is making a push in this industry due to the advantages that TimeSeries can provide to this industry. In one of the sessions I attended, the presentor mentioned in passig the "Did you know?" video on youtube. Just the context when it was mentioned made me pay attention. I took a note and decided to look it up later. Last time I checked, it had had over 14 million viewing!

"Did you know?" starts with a global view of the world ("If you are 1 in a million in China, there are 1300 people just like you") and continues to talk about the evolution of the impact of technologies on our lives and its impact in the future.

Some other highlights:

• the top 10 in-demand job in 2010...did not exist in 2004
• (dated!) 200 million register users in MySpace would represent the 5th largest country in the world (What about facebook?!?)
• It too the radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million people, it toook television 13 year and facebook 2 years
• It is estimated that 4 exabytes of unique information will be generated this year. This is more than the previous 5000 years

Like it says in the video, we are living in exponential times.

Take a look at it, it's only 5 minutes of your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY