Here is some interesting and perhaps scary info for you. Most of us probably have larger vocabularies than Shakespear. Go figure!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g
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1 comment:
Not surprising. This speaks to the problem of "information overload" experts predicted some years back when our society started to really go digital. The shear volume of information the average American has to wade through and assimilate in a week (instantaneous news from around the world every second of the day, the dozens of passwords and user names for work and play, etc.) is more than your average Victorian wage earner needed to know to live out their entire life.
Of course, we also get to reap the benefits of this information age (unlimited entertainment on every subject in every medium, instantaneous communication and the ability to watch events around the world as they are happening, etc.) while your Victorian factory slave could come home and read a book by candlelight (if they could even read or afford books) and would probably never leave the county they were born in.
Whether you see these things as good or bad, it is one of the great virtues of the human race that we adapt to constant change very well; thus far. But as mentioned in the video, we may start to come up against a wall in trying to push the boundaries of our own intellects; a wall that may only be surmounted using the faster, more powerful and more adaptable power of computer brains. Whether that is good or not well, just ask John Conner...
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