Jay Walker: A library of human imagination
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2008
- www.ted.com Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage.
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My Brother Ken Burdick made that library and used cherry wood. He is a Master Carpenter and I'm really proud of his work.
I saw this in Wired a couple moths ago.. I don't like the magazine, but the article on his library was breathtaking.. I can't believe this guy accumulated so many important artifacts of humanity.
wonderful video
that library gives me the shivers *want*
It brought tears to my eyes kinda breath taking!!
Exactly, peterbriers. Not to mention the energy required to build all the computers, to transport them, to house them securely... One server room at UCI required two air conditioners running at full blast 24/7 simply to keep the computers from overheating.
"haha, jay walker, i get it!" - channeling philip j. fry
I agree with this. Also, the internet is much faster and more efficient, so perhaps when he spoke... there were 100mhz computers that were the super computers of his talk....
All the servers, people repairing them, the cable lines laid down, people who did it, transportation of all the equipment... on and on... I could see how it could be calculated(awhile ago) to equal that.
I don't see how it can be now though.
He said: over the internet. It can be true, in a weird kind of way.
When you request a file on the internet, it has to go through a lot of cables (that had to been placed there = energy), trough a LOT of servers (servers running = energy). Somebody had to put the file on the internet (= energy)
So, depending on how you look at it, it might have some truth
I have to agree
yep
Wow, I never thought about the energy I use on my computer in respect to coal being consumed. All that CO2 and SO2, oh boy. I wish solar panels were cheaper. Perhaps someone needs to study more molecules that release electrons when exposed to UV light. I hope when I finish college one day I can do something like that.
I do not understand much about physics or solar panels things but it's good to hear that there's always someone out there who really cares about environment. If all of us have the dream of contributing to cure the earth's wound like you, the issue will be closed soon
Holy shit. It really takes that much energy to download 200 megabytes!?
95 Theses Mr. Walker, not 90. A good speech though, and a really interesting place that library. I'd like to see it.
atypicalguy, I think you are right.
The theoretical limit from thermodynamics is far below the lump of coal burning, and we are almost certainly doing much better. Unfortunately he was vague about what he was talking about, so an exact calculation is hard.
I know this comment is 4 years old, and I can't post links in comments, but I searched around for some calculations and it seems that his statement is more or less correct. The lump might be a bit smaller, around 6-7 grams, but that seems pretty legitimate to me.
I thought it was the same Jay Walker as the founder of PRICELINE and WebGrocer and Walker-Digital biz incubator. Fairly rare name, and still multiple people have it, lol.
No....this is the same jay walker, he is the founder of Priceline and enforcer and walker digital, that’s how he had the funds to amass such a fine collection.
Guttenberg bible is NOT the first printed book. Look history of Korea and China please.
Well does anyone know just how much energy is produced by a lump of coal? Maybe he was talking about the energy itself, not literal equivalent amounts of coal?
And it isn't a library... That's what mortals are used to name touristic museum...
It is the Jay Walker who founded Priceline
Yeh
I think you mistake a book for actually having to be hinged when this is not the case. There are stone tablets that are considered books. So scrolls or stone tablets, it does not matter.
The Diamond Sutra is the oldest printed book, preceding the Gutenberg Bible by almost 600 years. Look it up.
Technically while it doesn’t have to be “hinged” it does have to be bound to be considered a book. It can’t be just one continuous page or that would just constitute a scroll. Stone tablets if bound together are books, if they are stand alone they are tablets or plaques not books.
The diamond sutra is the oldest printed medium but not oldest printed book. The oldest printed book or it’s technical term codex is the Jikji a Korean printed book from the 14th century. And while the diamond sutra is older it’s not a book.
there are other sources of power which don't use coal(nuclear , solar, hydro...)
basically, mass traps light
Probably not. Bear in mind a "lump" of coal is not an actual unit of mass. He's making it up.
So you propose to fight alleged bad science with empty claims? Interesting...
Yes,. now I know the internet is driven by coal.
Estimated North American Data Transfer per Month = 11,000 Petabytes (11,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes).
1 MB = 1,048,576 bytes
11,000 petabytes/1 MB = 10,490,417,480,468.75
So apparently, North America alone, uses nearly 10.5 billion lumps of coal a month just to keep the internet running?
Lol, I smell BS. :)
wow dont we all feel like bastards now (not sarcasm)
one lump of coal, no-one is stupid enough to believe that!! wtf, apparently i used 19 lumps of coal to see this video, lol.
i dont really understand the point of this TED talk...not one of TED's strongest.
and wtf is up with the rolex commercials at the end. who watches that.
lol
I must have burnt millions of tonnes of coal over the years
ADN = machine? Coal = Megabyte? And that means not-for-free? If this where a discourse of some man from 500 years ago it'd be somewhat respectable. But it is not. The result: Too much imprecision and fables to think seriously about it.