Will skip to 1hr39m timestamp:
Saw this on This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte (sometimes you can catch it live. Been watching this podcast (it was mostly audio pre-200 episodes) for as long as Diggnation and Totally Rad Show [each have TechTV roots] so ~6yrs).
I especially like Brian Brushwood’s (guy with the spikey hair) [always] insightful commentary in the video:
Brian: “This is the collective diary of planet earth and it will live for all eternity, right now we have such a skewed view of the 1800s…
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Leo: 2 Billion videos a day watched on youtube, 35 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute
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Brian: Again it’s all authentic video and everything before 1940s is fake, a lie, and I don’t believe it.
[Ender's Game, sci-fi futurist rambling about singularity and backing up memories]
Leo: I want a flying car.
Before the 1hr39m mark they have an interesting discussion about how Google Chrome will not be supporting HTML5′s h264 (de facto HD and Youtube standard) video codec (but they are still supporting the Flash plugin which allows us to still view h264 codec on Youtube using Chrome). h264 is such an efficient codec for HD video. Same quality as DVD with half the filesize (just look at the difference). Still, it uses a lot of processor power just to decode (dual core processors are needed) and watch in HD. And encoding it: you better have a beefy CPU! I’m using an overclocked Intel hexacore and am barely getting real time encoding. Maybe it’s because my filesizes are so large. And my: it takes a while to upload (twice the rate of realtime).
Regarding the stats from Leo at 1hr39m: I think I’m most impressed by how big-time connected the other countries are growing. I hear South Korea is even more developed than Japan when it comes to Internet (like Verizon Fios speeds are standard). It’s supposed to be easier to setup the beefy internet infrastructure because these are highly populated, closely-knit island-like terrains (less surface area). I wonder if their ISPs uncap their services (uncap for unlimited monthly total download and upload). I know I use a lot of bandwidth (uploading 15 minutes worth of h264 1GB files many times to many sites) and I had to switch to my ISP’s business account because I was “using too much bandwidth.” (8x more than allowed and 32x more than average). I had to upgrade to an uncapped business account and moved to the highest tier and noticed a huge difference in speeds (the difference between 2.5hrs+frequent timeout uploads to a very efficient 27 minutes). Still not Verizon Fios speeds which are 5x-7x faster upload (25-35Mbps upload at residential prices) and I hear uncapped, but I would have to move to one of the 16 urbanized states that support this infrastructure. Amazing how all of this data is able to scale. Exponentially.
I thought this statistic pointed out by Gary Vaynerchuk on FORA was very interesting (and admittedly probably skewed because of HD video and picture filesize):
4m28s: Google CEO says more content is created now in 48hours than was from the beginning of time until 2003. Beginning of time to 2003: Same amount.
