If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans52 would be female
48 would be male70 would be non-white
30 would be white70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need Read More »
Web 1.0 = me
Web 2.0 = me + you
Web 1.0 = read
Web 2.0 = read + write
Web 1.0 = connecting ideas
Web 2.0 = connecting ideas + connecting people
Web 1.0 = search
Web 2.0 = recommendations of friends/others
Web 1.0 = find
Web 2.0 = share
Web 1.0 = techies rule
Web 2.0 = everybody rules
Christopher D. Sessums